Quality and Safety
The new program aims to streamline quality measures providers are required to meet, rewarding outcomes rather than micromanaging processes.
AHA says $1.1 billion from that total goes to support violence prevention and preparedness programs.
Prosecutors said 76 people died, more than 750 sickened from tainted injections after co-owner, pharmacist ignored unsanitary conditions.
Patients who report more intense and numerous physical and psychological symptoms see longer, and often unplanned, hospital stays.
The research is the first large-scale national study to link nurses' well-being to self-reported medical errors.
Emergency room overcrowding is caused by lack of access to care, and the focus should be there, ACEP says.
Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act turned Medicaid into a lifelong program for people it was never meant to support, Verma says.
A growing number of patients and doctors are concerned about overtreatment, which is rampant across the healthcare system.
Judge cited errors and inadequate evidence from both the defense and prosecution, as well as jury misconduct.
Researchers find increasing use by vulnerable populations as socioeconomic and racial inequality creates barriers to the use of healthcare.