This has won him the endorsement of the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association and other non-partisan bodies.
There are 5, 754 registered hospitals in the U.S. with nearly 37 million patients admitted, according to the American Hospital Association.
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Providers or provider associations (such as the American Medical Association and American Hospital Association) or insurers could pay to have products reviewed.
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The American Hospital Association agrees that patients play a crucial role.
However, the American Medical Association and American Hospital Association both said on Wednesday they oppose the Medicare expansion provision in the Senate package.
On November 30, the head of the American Hospital Association Rick Umbdenstock fired off a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, urging her to reconsider those requirements.
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"The concept of a payment policy that supports quality and safety is something that we support, " says Nancy Foster, who handles quality and patient safety issues for the American Hospital Association.
There's one problem: They are unable to feature the leading voices of patient care -- the American Medical Association and American Hospital Association -- because those organizations support reform as good for patients.
Rich Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, tells NPR's Robert Siegel that the hospitals have accepted "in principle" that reimbursements from Washington will decline as the number of insured patients rise at those institutions.
Standing behind him as he made the remarks were the leaders of the Advanced Medical Technology Association, the American Medical Association, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the American Hospital Association and the Service Employees International Union--trade groups representing medical technology companies, doctors, pharmaceuticals, hospitals and labor.
Dr. David Faxon , chief of cardiology at University of Chicago Hospital and former president of the American Heart Association, began using the device earlier this year to determine the role viscosity may play in clogging or hardening arteries.
At medical meetings and in the journals Circulation and The Journal of the American Medical Association, Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein of North Shore University Hospital and Keith Aaronson of the University of Michigan fretted that Natrecor might cause kidney problems or even an increase in mortality.
Broad-based, integrated, community-wide initiatives can help keep seniors out of the hospital, says an important new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Last year, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a review of models that predict which patients are at high risk for hospital readmission.
The findings prompted the American Heart Association to include therapeutic hypothermia in 2005 guidelines for treating cardiac-arrest patients outside of a hospital.
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