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Physician Wellness: A Self and System Imperative in a Value Based Model

Healthcare organizations cannot truly make safety and wellness a priority for their patients unless they also make it a priority for their providers and systems.

ECMO: Insights, Strategies and Key Considerations for Developing a Sustainable Program

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) or extracorporeal life support (ECLS), is a treatment that uses a synthetic heart and/or lung to support the body when a patient’s own organs are no longe
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Working to Eliminate Maternal Mortality

In this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Ginny Trainor, program director&nbsp

AHA urges court to reject challenge to 340B orphan drug interpretive rule

The AHA late Friday filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Department of Health and Human Services in a federal lawsuit seeking to exclude all drugs with an “orphan” designation from a

Studies: Bundled payment reduces cost for certain joint replacements

Hospitals participating in the Medicare Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Program reduced spending for lower extremity joint replacements over three years by an average 1.6 percent more than hospitals that did not participate, with no change in quality, according to a study reported last week in Health Affairs.

Bills would extend Healthy Start program, Medicaid transportation benefit

The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on a number of health care bills, including those that would reauthorize the AHA-supported Healthy Start program and continue Medicaid coverage for non-emergency medical transportation.

Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule private payer data reporting delayed

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has delayed 2020 private payer data reporting for the Clinical Diagnostic Test Payment System until 2021 for tests that are not advanced diagnostic laboratory tests, as required by recent legislation extending funding for federal programs through fiscal year 2020.

CMS releases final Quality Payment Program results for 2018

Ninety-eight percent of eligible clinicians and 97% of rural practices who participated in the 2018 Quality Payment Program through the Merit-based Incentive Payment System track will receive a positive payment adjustment in 2020.

Adam J. Atherly