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Post-acute care (PAC) providers are critical partners in the transition toward a more integrated, value-based delivery system, panelists said at a May 1 special AHA Annual meeting briefing.

Speaking May 1 at a diversity roundtable at the AHA annual meeting, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) official expressed her support for the AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to E

Patrick Conway, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services deputy administrator for innovation and quality and chief medical officer, this week indicated that the agency will consider giving hosp

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today launched “Clean Hands Count,” a campaign promoting

Participants at this week’s AHA Annual Membership Meeting got a preview of a new AHA video honoring the more tha

Reps. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), Dave Loebsack (D-IA) and Adrian Smith (R-NE) late yesterday introduced the AHA-supported Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act (H.R.

A study published yesterday in BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal, estimates that more Americans may die from medi

Health care quality is improving overall, especially in hospitals, and more people have health care coverage and a usual source of medical care since the Affordable Care Act took effect, according

Adding a spending per beneficiary measure to the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program in 2015 while decreasing the weight of the quality measures allowed some lower quality hospitals to receive

About one in five working-age adults reporting serious psychological distress lacked health insurance when surveyed in the first nine months of 2015, down from 28% in 2012, according to a new

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule adopting

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Administrator

In remarks today at the AHA annual meeting, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) thanked AHA for educating committee members about the Standard Mergers and Acquisitions Review

“Hospitals put politics and labels aside and get things

The AHA supports the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s proposal for more transparent surveillance of certified health IT products, and recommends that the

An estimated 30% of the 154 million antibiotics prescribed in doctors’ offices and emergency departments in 2010-2011 may have been inappropriate, according to a