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Webinar: MSSP Proposed Rule: ACOs-Pathways to Success

Members-only webinar replay: MSSP Proposed Rule: ACOs-Pathways to Success
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340B Payment Reduction Suit: Government's Motion to Dismiss

Legal documents related to the government's motion to dismiss filed on Sept. 14, 2018.
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340B Good Stewardship Principles: Slide Deck

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AHA Urges AHRQ to Retain National Guidelines Clearinghouse

AHA expresses disappointment that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is shutting down the National Guidelines Clearinghouse.
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AHA Testimony Before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Re: Cybersecurity Threats

AHA testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding cybersecurity threats facing hospitals, health systems and the health care field. 
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AHA Statement Before the House Committee on Ways and Means Re: Modernizing the Stark Law

AHA statement before the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health regarding "Modernizing Stark Law to Ensure the Successful Transition from Volume to Value in the Medicare Program."
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AHA to Senate in Support of Robert Wilkie Dept. of Veterans Affairs Nomination 

AHA letter to the Senate expressing support for Robert Wilkie Department.of Veteran Affairs Nomination.
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Advisory: Home Health PPS: Proposed Update for CY 2019 and Proposed Redesign For CY 2020

On July 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its calendar year (CY) 2019 proposed rule for the home health (HH) prospective payment system (PPS).
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Member Call: Home Health PPS Proposed Rule

Held July 25, 2018 Join your colleagues as AHA policy staff review several topics of significant impact to the home health providers and seek your feedback on the potential impact of each
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Trendwatch Issue Brief 3: Improving Patient Safety and Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology

Hospitals and health systems increasingly use EHRs and other health IT tools to support patient safety and improve care delivery. These tools have varying capabilities, but core functions include capturing clinical information – such as physician and nursing notes, test results, prescriptions, and problem lists – and ongoing monitoring and analysis of patient status indicators and outcomes. While the promise of health IT for quality and safety improvement has begun to materialize, there is still more to achieve. This brief is the third in a series highlighting survey results from the 2016 AHA Annual Survey Information Technology Supplement for community hospitals collected November 2016 – April 2017. This brief focuses on the use of health IT by hospitals and health systems to improve patient safety and health care quality.