The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today updated the federal government’s five-year
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday extended the deadline for certain health insurance issuers to distribute medical loss ratio rebates to enrollees.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released premiu
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management and Health Research & Educational Trust last week mailed hospital CEOs their 2015 survey to learn more about hospitals’ ongoing efforts to
The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering, in collaboration with The Joint Commission, has released the first in a new series of resources to help health care facilities comply wi
The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals today urged the National Labor Relations Board to affirm its long-standing position
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Homeland Security on Monday will remove Liberia from the list of Ebola-affected nations subject to enhanced visa and port-of-entry s
A National Institutes of Health advisory group yesterday issued recommendations for creating and managing a national
The Food and Drug Administration today issued safety recommendations for health care facil
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services encourages hospitals to review their results from its “
An estimated 90% of hospital workers report receiving a flu vaccine for the 2014-15 flu sea
The Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, a forum initiated by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell in
An AHASTAT blog post today looks at the likely impact of the proposed Aetna-Humana merger on seniors in Medicare Advantage.
The federal government should “immediately adopt” proposed changes to Stage 2 meaningful use requirements for the Medicare & Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Programs an
The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum today issued a
The AHA yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to strategically build its star rating system for overall hospital-level quality rather than trying to retrofit existing Hos
The Food and Drug Administration today announced changes to
More than 700 hospitals have signed onto the AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to Act Campaign to eliminate health c
Certain adults at increased risk for cardiovascular disease should take low-dose aspirin daily to prevent heart attack, stroke and colorectal cancer, according to a