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The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday released a report on

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host a Public Health Grand Rounds session Jan. 16 at 1 p.m.

Charlotte Ipsan, chief administrative officer of Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Louisville, KY, will serve as 2018 chair of the AHA’s Section for Maternal and Child Health Council.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will accept applications through March 12 for a new voluntary bundled payment model that will qualify as an advanced alternative payment model under

President Trump today issued an executive order directing federal agencies to “use all viable tools to ac

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week

The AHA this week applauded the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s draft recommendation to provide positive updates for the inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems in 2019, noting

Mary Lou Mastro, system CEO for Edward-Elmhurst Health in Naperville, IL, is 2018 council chair of the AHA’s Constituency Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services.

Ed Eckenhoff, founder and former president and CEO of the Washington, DC-based MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH), and a tireless advocate for the disabled, died yesterday after a battl

The American Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges and America's Essential Hospitals today formally notified the court of their intent to

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today held a he

The Senate Finance Committee today held

Only 12% of eligible hospitals signed up for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative and 47% of them dropped out within two years, accordi

David Hyman, DDS, a board director for Hartford (CT) HealthCare, will chair the AHA's 2018 Committee on Governance.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released for comment a

Intravenous saline and amino acid drug supplies should begin to increase in the next few weeks as manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico ramp up production,

Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.24% in December to a seasonally adjusted 5,152,800 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics re

The AHA seeks hospital and health system trustees to serve on its Committee on Governance and Regional Policy Boards beginning in 2019. For more information and to apply through Feb.

A new certificate program from the AHA’s Association for the Healthcare Environment will teach health care leaders who purchas

Interventions can be worthwhile when using actionable data, says Chad Westover, CEO of University of Utah Health Plans in Murray, Utah.