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CMS creates mailbox for questions on Medicaid/CHIP mental health parity rule

Health care providers and other stakeholders may email questions and concerns regarding the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’
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Scanning the Headlines: Rehabilitation Services

Updated on March 18, 2016
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Goals of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Programs

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) authorized incentive payments to eligible hospitals and physicians that are

Nurse donates ‘one in a million’ matching bone marrow to save stranger’s life

Also in this roundup of nursing news: a nurse perseveres through extreme snow to tend to a home-bound patient, and executive moves in the field.

Hearing discusses strategies to improve health care affordability, accessibility

The House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a

Azar highlights HHS goals for value-based kidney care

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar this week highlighted the agency’s goals for promoting prevention, value-based care and transplant opportunities for beneficiaries with kidney disease.

Verma hints at coming Stark Law regulatory changes

In remarks this week, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma hinted at some of the coming changes to the agency’s Stark Law regulations.

NIH trial with HCA hospitals reduces bloodstream infections sharply

In a large clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and conducted at HCA Healthcare hospitals, an infection control technique reduced bloodstream infections by 31 percent and antibiotic-resistant bacteria by nearly 40 percent among non-intensive care unit patients with central-line catheters and lumbar drains.

U.S. News to incorporate certain AHA, quality data into future IRF rankings

U.S. News & World Report plans to incorporate certain data from the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Compare website and the AHA Annual Survey Database into its 2020-21 Best Hospitals for Rehabilitation rankings, and encourages IRFs and acute-care hospitals with inpatient rehabilitation units to make sure the relevant data are complete.