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AHA Urges CMS, HHS to Convene Expert Panels for PAC PPS

The AHA yesterday asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation to convene technical expert panels to inform and receive input from stakeholders as they develop a unified post-acute care prospective payment system.

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan to form health care company

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co. will create an independent company “free from profit-making incentives and constraints” to address health care for their U.S. employees, the organizations announced today.

CMS extends ground ambulance, home health moratoria

The agency today extended for another six months its moratoria on enrollment of new Medicare home health agencies and and on new Part B non-emergency ground ambulance suppliers in certain states.

MedPAC recommends 2019 payment update for hospitals, no PAC update

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday recommended that Congress increase Medicare base payment rates for hospital inpatient and outpatient services by 1.25% in 2019, as provided under
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Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services Section Membership

AHA's Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services promotes and enhances the understanding and importance of behavioral health care thru AHA policy, advocacy, and service efforts specific t
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Improving Outcomes

Maimonides Medical Center implemented four evidence-based practices using the Plan, Do, Study, Act methodology that improved colorectal
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Palliative Care Programs

In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose seven pilots site with established palliative care programs to test improvements.
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VA Home-based Primary Care

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care began in 1972.