Senate Finance Committee leaders today issued a staff report on “concurrent and overlapping surgeries,” which the report describes as a practice involving a surgeon scheduling and conducting operat
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The AHA yesterday asked the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to consider certain issues before making draft recommendations related to provider consolidation and stand-alone emergency departmen
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General today issued a
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday released a final report on a Winnable Battles project, launch
The Root Cause Coalition, formed last year to address hunger and other social determinants of preventable chronic health conditions,
The AHA’s United Against the Flu Campaign w
Court proceedings got underway today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Aetna’s bid to acquire Humana.
Hospitals participating in the AHA’s third-quarter 2016 RACTrac
People who smoke an average of less than one cigarette per day over their lifetime have a 64% higher risk of earlier death than never smokers, and those who smoke between one and 10 cigarettes a da
The AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate was recently awarded a contract from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to work with experts in ambulatory care, patien
The AHA today thanked President-elect Trump for his interest and commitment to addressing regulatory reform, and suggested 33 actions the incoming administration could take immediately to reduce th
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.11% in November to a seasonally adjusted 5,120,600 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Crain’s Chicago Business today named AHA Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., one of 40
The House of Representatives last night voted 392-26 to approve the AHA-supported 21
The AHA today offered recommendations for improving the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ 2018 draft letter to issuers of qualified health plans in federally facilitated marketpla
Hospital representatives are invited to learn more about recent policy activities impacting the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor program during a
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted answers to
The AHA today released an infographic de