Eighteen percent of adults under age 65 reported visiting a hospital emergency department at least once in 2014, about the same as in 2013, according to a
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Illinois hospitals and health systems generate $88.8 billion a year and nearly 500,000 direct and indirect jobs for the state’s economy, according to a new
Minnesota hospitals and health systems contributed more than $4.3 billion in programs and services to benefit the health of their communities in 2014, a 4.6% increase from 2013, according to a rece
The AHA seeks hospital and health system trustees to serve on its Committee on Governance, Regional Policy Boards, and other governing councils and committees beginning in 2017.
Every year the Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA), like many other state, metropolitan and regional hospital associations across the country, releases an annual report that describes how its
American Heart Month is an annual celebration in February that began in 1963 to encourage Americans to join the battle against heart disease.
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued
The AHA yesterday asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Department of the Treasury to “take swift and decisive action” to protect consumers from limited-benefit pla
The AHA yesterday urged the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics to adopt a proposed electronic transaction standard for claims attachments, but with certain conditions to help ensure
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted a Frequently Asked Question clarifying what
Uncompensated care costs at Missouri hospitals increased 469% between 2004 and 2014, according to the Missouri Hospital Association’s annual
Heeding concerns raised by the AHA and others, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Feb.
In a letter Friday to Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its health subcomm
The Core Quality Measures Collaborative, a public-private effort to align and simplify quality measures for physicians and other clinicians, has reached consensus on core quality measures for certa
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will begin distributing in March an anticipated $7.7 billion in reinsurance payments for the 2015 benefit year, the agency
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education today launched an
In a study published online this week in JAMA Pediatrics, adjusting for social determinants of heal
As urged by AHA, states may immediately use alternative ways to document that a critical access hospital is a “necessary provider,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today