The AHA seeks nominations through Sept. 23 for its 2017 Hospital Awards for Volunteer Excellence.
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When Bon Secours Hampton Roads (Va.) Health System’s healthy community initiative began in Norfolk’s East Ocean View neighborhood seven years ago, the prospects for reviving this coasta
The Congressional Budget Office yesterday released a report examining hospital finances over the next decade under several s
The Government Accountability Office today released a report examining key policy and data considerations should policymake
The Joint Commission will require acute-care hospitals to report on five chart-abstracted measures and six electronic clinical quality measures for ORYX performance measure reporting in 2017.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is conducting through Sept.
The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement bundled payment program may unintentionally penalize hospitals because it lacks a mechanism, such as risk adjustment, to sufficiently account for patien
While hospitals in the Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program receive patient experience points based on achievement, improvement and consistency, additional emphasis on improvement point
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is accepting applications through Nov.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will give physicians and other clinicians more options in the first year to comply with the new quality payment program being instituted under the M
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a final rule bolster
The Department of Health and Human Services today awarded $350,0
Hospitals and health systems, health care practices, community-based organizations and others can apply through Nov.
Physicians spent 27% of their office day on direct clinical face time with patients and 49% of their time on electronic health records and desk work, according to a
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a
Hospitals that submitted Worksheet S-10 with their cost report for fiscal year 2014 can submit revisions to the worksheet through Sept. 30.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should delay implementing the “site-neutral” provisions of the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act until it can provide fair and equitable
The AHA today shared with the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee suggestions for enhancing existing hospital quality reporting and pay-for-performance programs to more effectively drive impro
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks input as it designs a pilot to evaluate the impact of verifying a consumer’s eligibility for a special enrollment period before they enr
Enrollment in private health insurance plans remained concentrated among a small number of issuers in most states in 2014, according to a