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More than 700 hospitals have signed onto the AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to Act Campaign to eliminate health care disparities, the association r
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday re-issued hospital-specific reports to all hospitals in the fiscal year 2016 Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program to correct inac
The National Academy of Medicine today issued recommendations for reducing diagnostic errors i
The average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage rose 4% this year to $17,545, according to the latest annual
Finding in favor of hospitals, U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss Sept.
The “unprecedented” consolidation that would result from recently announced health insurance company acquisitions threatens consumers and the nation’s health care system, AHA Pres
Tim McKinney started the nonprofit United Global Outreach, Inc.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today updated the federal government’s five-year
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.