June 11, 2010
HHS Announces Patient Safety and Medical Liability Demonstration Projects
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today announced grants to support efforts by States and health systems to implement and evaluate patient safety approaches and medical liability reforms.
June 08, 2010
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Statement on Recent Study of Infection Control Practices in Ambulatory Surgical Centers
Today, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which underscored the urgency behind the Obama Administration’s efforts to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
June 08, 2010
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Send Letter to State Attorneys General On New Outreach and Education Efforts to Combat Medicare Fraud
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder today sent a letter to state attorneys general urging them to work with HHS and federal, state, and local law enforcement officials to mount a substantial outreach campaign to educate seniors and other Medicare beneficiaries about how to prevent scams and fraud beginning this summer.
June 07, 2010
Secretary Sebelius Announces $51 Million in Affordable Care Act Grants to Innovate, Improve, and Enhance Health Insurance Premium Rate Review
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the availability of $51 million in Health Insurance Premium Review Grants through the Affordable Care Act.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the availability of $60 million in Affordable Care Act grants to states and communities to help individuals and their caregivers better understand and navigate their health and long-term care options.
June 3, 2010
HHS Awards $83.9 Million in Recovery Act Funds to Expand Use of Health Information Technology
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced $83.9 million in grants to help networks of health centers adopt electronic health records (EHR) and other health information technology (HIT) systems.
June 2, 2010
Medicare to Participate in State Multi-payer Health Reform Efforts to Improve Quality and Lower Costs
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today invited states to apply for participation in the Multi-payer Advanced Primary Care Practice Demonstration, an initiative in which Medicare will join Medicaid and private insurers in state-based efforts to improve the delivery of primary care and lower health care costs.