American Health Planning Association © 2018
In the News
- Rotavirus Vaccination Linked to Decrease in Hospitalizations (Clinical Advisor)
- Lyme disease: Incidence of diagnosis in a Maryland Medicaid Population (Global Dispatch)
- Senate panel eyes regulating insurance prior authorizations (Modern Healthcare)
- Quantifying Financial Distress to Stop Hospital Bankruptcy, Closure (RevCycle)
- 5 takeaways from the Senate hearing on healthcare costs (Beckers)
- Societies encouraged by spirit of CMS' proposed changes, question efficacy (Healio)
- Opinion: The Trump administration stands up for health-
care workers and Medicaid recipients (MSN)
- VT Hospitals outline projections for revenue and rate hikes (VTDigger)
- Data Note: Changes in Enrollment in the Individual Health Insurance Market (KFF)
- Hospital execs say inpatient volume growth isn't rebounding (Modern Healthcare)
- GI Patients Drive More than 50% of Hospital Costs (Medpage)
- Consumers call for additional Md. laws aimed at stabilizing ACA health insurance market (Business Journals)
- 1,400 Nursing Homes See Medicare Ratings Fall (US News/Kaiser HN)
- Opinion:The decay of Medicare Part D (The Hill)
Related Articles:
- Medicare Advantage Cut ER Visits 33% Compared To Fee-
For- Service (Forbes) - 'Wake-
up call': MA beneficiaries with certain conditions less likely to visit emergency room, report finds (McKnights Long Term Care News) - Medicare Advantage Outperforms Traditional Medicare for Chronically Ill (Yahoo Finance)
- $180M EHR Implementation Project Approved at UW Medicine (EHRIntel)
- New staffing law, old struggles bedevil California nursing homes (LATimes)
- Atrium Health pilot could help narrow rural health-
care gap through emerging tech (Charlotte Business Journal)
- Long-
term survival worse for black survivors of in- hospital cardiac arrest (EurekaAlert!)
- What Is Triple-
Negative Breast Cancer? (US News)
- Feds threaten to boot Triangle nursing homes accused of patient abuse out of Medicare (WRAL)
- Key Issues Impacting Two-
Sided Risk Accountable Care Organizations (RevCycle)
- Medicare Eyes Hospital Readmissions from Nursing Homes: Too many "boomerang" patients tied to poor care at nursing facilities (MedPageToday)
- Vermont Hospitals add emergency mental health staff (VTDigger)
- Department of Veterans Affairs makes VA nursing home ratings public (Orlando Sentinel)
- Massachusetts House passes health care bill to help community hospitals (MassLive)
- Why Is Cancer Treatment So Expensive? (U.S. News)
- Unsafe Injection Practices and Reusable EEG Electrode Contamination Prevalent in Ambulatory Health Care Clinics (Contagion)
- Mental health, substance abuse treatment shortage in Wyoming blamed for prison overcrowding (Gillette News Record)
- EMS bill remedies staffing problem in rural New York. (Adirondack Daily)
- 7 Surveys That Say A Lot About U.S. Healthcare:Part 2 (Forbes: Opinion)
- Trump admin finalizes Association Health Plans expansion (HealthCareDive)
- Industry experts argued hospitalization-
based bundled payment models can reduce post- acute spending more effectively than outpatient- based arrangements (RevCycle)
- Influencing physician alignment — Health systems' strategic options (Beckers)
- VCU Health builds tool to streamline communication between inpatient units and its pharmacy at discharge (FierceHealth)
- CMS Scorecard for Medicaid, CHIP Measures Draws Scrutiny From State Directors (AJMC)
- Change is Coming to a Medicare Advantage Plan Near You (Palliative Pulse)
- 2017 Hospice and Home Health Medicare Utilization Trends (Home Health Care News)
Blogs We Follow
AHPA National Directory
CON Service Matrix
Popular Site Destinations
- State CON Websites
- Planning Resources
- Contact AHPA
- Links to Job Openings in Health Planning/Policy/Analysis
- Links to Various Facility & Health Status Rankings
- News Article Archive
CON Mapbook
The American Health Planning Association is a non-