President Obama’s fiscal year 2017 budget request will include nearly $1.1 billion in new funding to address prescription opioid abuse and heroin use, the White House
Hospitals and others applying for a hardship exception to the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program to avoid a 2017 payment adjustment need not submit documentation of their circumst
The Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development and American College of Healthcare Executives last week released “Futurescan 2016-2021,” their annual guide to trends affect
Congress should adopt a single broad exception to federal fraud and abuse laws for financial relationships designed to foster collaboration, efficiencies and improvements in health care, the AHA la
Health care providers should initiate antiviral treatment as soon as possible for all patients hospitalized with confirmed or suspected flu, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said toda
The Department of Health and Human Services should collect and report hospital-specific data on all types of Medicaid payments for all hospitals that receive them, the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and
Congress should adopt a single broad exception to federal fraud and abuse laws for financial relationships designed to foster collaboration, efficiencies and improvements in health care, AHA told l
President Obama yesterday established a federal task force to recommend how to speed new treatments and a cure for cancer, an initiative announced in his recent State of the Union address.
Thirty-one travel-associated cases of Zika virus have been detected in 11 states and the District of Columbia since 2015, Anne Schuchat, M.D., principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease C