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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

An estimated 27.3 million U.S.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday awarded $63 million in

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should delay implementing the site-neutral provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 until it can provide fair and equitable payment to hospit

The AHA supports a number of proposals in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ physician fee schedule proposed rule for calendar year 2017 that would expand Medicare beneficiarie

The AHA last week expressed support for The Sustaining Healthcare Integrity and Fair Treatment Act (H.R.

The AHA last week expressed support for the Independence at Home Act (S. 3130), which would make permanent a Medicare demonstration program that provides primary care to patients at home.

The AHA last week urged the Illinois Supreme Court to reverse an appellate court decision that rejected as unconstitutional the state’s property tax exemption standard for hospitals.