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Save the Date: Nov. 4 AHA Live Virtual Event on Election Recap and What the Results Mean for Health Care

Please mark your calendars for Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 4 p.m. ET for a special AHA post-election webcast in which AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and Executive Vice President of Government Relations and Public Policy Tom Nickels will break down the results and what they may mean for health care.
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Urge Congress to Eliminate Medicare Sequester in 2021 and During the Duration of the Public Health Emergency

Urge Your Federal Legislators to Pass Legislation Providing Relief from Medicare Sequester in 2021 and for the Duration of the Public Health Emergency.
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HHS partners with AHA and others to help Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders enroll in coverage

As part of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Week of Action May 3-7, the Department of Health and Human Services has partnered with the AHA and other national organizations to inform this population through social media about the special enrollment period available through Aug. 15 at the federally-facilitated health insurance marketplace.
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AHA podcast: Go deeper into CMS’ updated hospital star ratings

On this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Akin Demehin and Caitlin Gillooley, who lead AHA’s work on policy regarding quality measurement, and Anthony Weiss, M.D., senior vice president and chief medical officer of Beth Israel-Deaconness Medical Center in Boston, Mass., discuss the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ updates to the hospital star ratings methodology, including what changed, what didn’t and what still needs to.
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Navicent Health’s Journey from Document Control to Knowledge Ecosystem

Learn how Navicent Health leveraged ISO 9001:2015 and the PolicyTech knowledge management system to create standard work, a zero-waste culture and high performance.
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HHS urged to reconsider certain quality reporting changes for Medicare ACOs

Eleven organizations representing physicians and hospitals, including the AHA, urged Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to reconsider certain quality reporting changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program, which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized in the 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. 
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NIOSH revokes approval for N95 respirator model

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health today revoked its public health certificate of approval for Plastikon Industries’ PLASMA N95-01 filtering facepiece respirator for failure to meet filter efficiency requirements in a product audit.
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Thank you for submitting your information to the CDI Prevention Collaborative. We will review and get back to you to discuss next steps.
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Ask your Members of Congress to Act in the ‘Lame-Duck Session’ to Eliminate Cuts to the Medicaid DSH Program

Please contact your senators and representatives and urge them to eliminate the $4 billion in Medicaid DSH cuts for the next fiscal year. More details follow on the FY 2021 DSH cuts and services that Medicaid DSH hospitals provide nationally.
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Deadline Extended Until Oct. 29 for Your Representatives to Sign ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter Urging HHS to Take Action

Please contact your representatives today and ask them to sign onto a bipartisan “Dear Colleague” letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar expressing concern about recent efforts by Kalderos to transition the 340B Drug Pricing Program from one of up-front discounts to post-sale rebates.