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The Department of Health and Human Services has reduced its backlog of Medicare appeals at the Administrative Law Judge level by 31.4%, to 292,517, since AHA and three member hospitals and health systems won a legal challenge to the backlog in November 2018.
Watch the video below to learn more about her background, key priorities and what she is most excited about for her year as AHA chair.
The AHA today commented on the Food and Drug Administration鈥檚 draft guidance for industry and FDA staff on clinical decision support software as part of the agency鈥檚 efforts to implement Section 3060(a) of the 21st Century Cures Act.
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has taken 鈥渢he first steps toward much needed reform鈥 of the federal anti-kickback statute and civil monetary penalty rules regarding beneficiary inducements.
AHA and its American Organization for Nursing Leadership today voiced support for the Resolving Extended Limbo for Immigrant Employees and Families Act.
The Department of Health and Human Services Dec. 12 announced that it intends to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse a district court ruling in favor of the AHA.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will automatically reprocess calendar year 2019 claims for hospital outpatient services provided in off-campus provider-based departments grandfathered under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.
As open enrollment closes Dec. 15, a unique Treasury Department experiment found that sending letters to the uninsured resulted in increased health insurance enrollment, leading to reduced mortality, writes Ariel Levin, AHA senior associate director for state issues.
Health care is taking care of people and depends on people, writes Catherine Jacobson, president and CEO of Milwaukee-based Froedtert Health and chair of AHA鈥檚 Task Force on the Changing Workforce. Read more about the ideas, innovations and key takeaways from the group鈥檚 first meeting.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on proposals to achieve universal health care coverage.