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The focus of this year’s National Nurses Week, which concludes today, is “Culture of Safety: It Starts With You.” In an AHASTAT

The AHA May 11 submitted to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee several overarching recommendations for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APM)

The AHA today submitted to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee several overarching recommendations for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and Alternative Payment Models that the Cent

As legislation to address the opioid crisis moved to the floor, AHA and others yesterday urged House leaders to align privacy laws governing substance use disorder patient records with Health Insur

The Coalition to Protect a Democratic Workplace, whose members include the AHA, yesterday voiced support for a joint resolution (H.J. Res.

The proposed merger between health insurers Aetna and Humana would give the combined company 25% of Medicare Advantage enrollment nationwide, assuming no divestitures were required, according to a

The Class of 2018 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.

As National Hospital Week draws to a close it is worth reflecting on how those blue and white signs with the big "H" have always carried the promise of help, hope and healing.

At last week’s AHA Annual Membership Meeting, the association recognized people and organizations that improve America’s health care.

A federal district judge yesterday rejected a Federal Trade Commission challenge of a proposed merger between Penn State Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth System, denying the agency’s

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology yesterday announced $1.5 million in funding to test selected clinical interoperabil

Louisiana hospitals generate more than $31.6 billion annually in state business activity and directly employ more than 103,000 people, according to a

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed payment model for Medicare Part B drugs should not include hospitals, which “have little control over which drugs physicians p

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday released an interim final rule&nb

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a May 12 webinar&nbs

A panel of health care pharmaceutical experts May 3 offered a range of approaches to help rein in what all agreed is an unsustainable increase in prescription drug prices during an executive briefi

The two major proposed mergers in the health insurance sector – Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna – should trouble providers and consumers, because evidence suggests health plan consolidati

About 17% of working-age adults lacked a usual place for medical care when surveyed in 2014, ranging from 3% in Vermont to 27% in Nevada, according to a new

Almost half of seniors with severely impaired vision reported falling in 2014, compared with one in three seniors overall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.45% in April to a seasonally adjusted 5,065,400 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics