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AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
This month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will refresh the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings (Overall Star Rating) on its Care Compare website, the second update since the agency overhauled the methodology in 2020. This year’s refresh will incorporate data from 2021…
The FBI, jointly with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of the Treasury, today issued a public cybersecurity advisory warning of the North Korean government’s current use of the “Maui” ransomware platform to conduct disruptive ransomware attacks against…
Another major federal price transparency requirement went into effect July 1, 2022. There are three major federal price transparency policies: Hospital Price Transparency rule; Transparency in Coverage rule; and No Surprises Act.
The transparency in coverage rule takes effect July 1, imposing new transparency requirements on most group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage in the individual and group markets. Beginning next month most health plans must disclose publicly in machine-readable files all in-…
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf reported
yesterday in a call with AHA and other stakeholders that progress has been made in
addressing the shortage of infant formula.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 18 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2023 proposed rule for the inpatient and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment system (PPS).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 8 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2023 proposed rule for the skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system (PPS).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 18 issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) PPS proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2023.
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An arbitrator has ordered that Anthem Insurance Company, Inc. (“Anthem”) pay a group of 11 acute care hospitals in Indiana (“hospitals”) $4.5 million as compensation for adopting a policy of processing claims for emergency services that the arbitrator found is a “clear” violation of federal and…