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In a letter Friday to Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its health subcomm

The Core Quality Measures Collaborative, a public-private effort to align and simplify quality measures for physicians and other clinicians, has reached consensus on core quality measures for certa

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will begin distributing in March an anticipated $7.7 billion in reinsurance payments for the 2015 benefit year, the agency

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education today launched an

In a study published online this week in JAMA Pediatrics, adjusting for social determinants of heal

As urged by AHA, states may immediately use alternative ways to document that a critical access hospital is a “necessary provider,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today

Hospitals will not be able to submit fourth-quarter 2015 data to the hospital inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs until early to mid-March because the Health Care Quality Informatio

Flu-related hospitalizations are nearly twice as common in high-poverty areas as in low-poverty areas, according to a new

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Feb.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule implement

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today extended to March 11 the deadline for hospitals and eligible professionals to

The Senate Judiciary Committee today amended and approved by voice vote two bipartisan bills aimed at stemming the opioid epidemic.

The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday named seven new members to the

Lynn Smith, auxilian at CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs (AR), will chair the AHA's 2016 Committee on Volunteers.

The Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care has launched a redesigned website showcasing its mission, Hospital Heroes campaign and other video and digital products.

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is offering a limited number of seats in its 2016 examiner preparation course.

The president’s fiscal year (FY) 2017 budget request for nearly $420 billion in 10-year Medicare payment cuts to providers “would jeopardize hospitals’ ability to keep the promise of maintaining access to vital health care services,” the AHA said last week.

Adults hospitalized for acute cardiovascular disease, surgery or pneumonia are less likely to experience some adverse events in hospitals with certain electronic health record functions, according

Remote patient monitoring does not reduce readmissions or mortality for older adults discharged home after inpatient treatment for heart failure, but recipients report better quality of life, accor

The U.S.