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AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) recently took steps to operationalize the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record \(EHR\) incentive programs. The incentive programs provide bonus payments to certain physicians and hospitals for the adoption and ")meaningful use") of…
On March 31, information on Medicare hospital-acquired conditions \(HACs\) will be publicly available for the first time. Unlike the display of other Hospital Compare measures, the data will be made available as an electronic file showing raw data and the rates for eight HACs.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released recently the Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP Final Rule on Additional Screening Requirements, Application Fees, Temporary Enrollment Moratoria, Payment
In the February 15 Federal Register, the Food and Drug Administration \(FDA\) released a final regulation on how it will regulate ")medical device data systems") \(MDDS\).
On February 23, the Internal Revenue Service \(IRS\) released a revised Schedule H with Instructions, and announced a mandatory three-month extension for filing IRS Form 990 for certain filers.
Next Monday marks the beginning of National Patient Safety Awareness Week. This is a good opportunity for you to inform your patients and their families, consumers and the community about the work you and your employees do every day to improve care,
On January 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released a proposed regulation for the new hospital value-based purchasing \(VBP\) program. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 \(ACA\) established a Medicare VBP program to pay hospitals for their actual…
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) issued its inpatientpsychiatric facility \(IPF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for rate year \(RY\) 2012. This proposed rule affects freestanding IPFs, as well as IPF distinct-part units of acute care and critical access…
On January 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released a proposed regulation for the new hospital value-based purchasing \(VBP\) program.
On November 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its final rule with comment period for calendar year \(CY\) 2011 with changes to the Medicare physician fee schedule \(PFS\) and other revisions under Medicare Part B.