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The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General today issued a final
Only about 5% of adults in Medicaid expansion states who were hospitalized for substance use or mental health disorders in third-quarter 2015 lacked health insurance, down from 20% in 2013, accordi
President-elect Donald Trump yesterday announced his intention to nominate as Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Elaine Couture, R.N., executive vice president/chief executive for Providence Health & Services eastern Washington/Montana, will lead the AHA's Constituency Section for Metropolitan Hospitals a
The Senate voted 51 to 48 early Thursday to approve a budget resolution instructing House and Senate committees to begin work on legislation to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act.
The Food and Drug Administration today alerted health care providers and patients to safety concerns with the use of implantable infusion pumps in the magnetic resonance imaging environment, citing
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today released a
The Council for Affordable and Quality Healthcare will share updated data on administrative cost savings from reducing manual business transactions during a webinar tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday issued a report summarizing national and international p
Rachelle Schultz, president and CEO of Winona Health in Winona, MN, will lead the AHA's Constituency Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2017.
The House of Representatives last night voted 404-0 to approve the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medicines Act (H.R. 304).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released a final rule imp
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released additional details on the Medicare Accountable Care Organization Track 1+ model, which will begin in 2018.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today released the fifth and final
More than 11.5 million people selected a 2017 health plan through the Health Insurance Marketplaces as of Dec.
The drive to build a continuum of care that rewards value over volume is unlikely to abate because it’s what consumers demand, AHA General Counsel Melinda Reid Hatton writes in an AHA Stat
Joe McDonald, president and CEO of Catholic Health System in Buffalo, NY, will serve as 2017 council chairman of the AHA's Constituency Section for Health Care Systems.
The AHA agrees with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission that positive payment updates for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems are necessary in fiscal year 2018, t