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CMS excludes four physician telehealth services from Medicare after COVID-19 emergency

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a notice correcting technical errors in its final rule updating physician fee schedule payments for calendar year 2021.
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AHA launches new toolkit series focused on advancing health equity strategies and tactics

Hospital and health system leaders are uniquely positioned to deploy strategies and solutions to advance health equity, diversity and inclusion and share those successes broadly, writes Joy Lewis, AHA senior vice president of health equity strategies and executive director of the AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, in a blog post highlighting a new resource released today.
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OSHA launches COVID-19 National Emphasis Program

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a National Emphasis Program related to COVID-19 enforcement that expands upon OSHA’s current enforcement efforts by targeting specific high-hazard industries or activities where the risk of workers contracting COVID-19 is substantial.
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AHA releases new fact sheet highlighting continued financial challenges hospitals are facing

The AHA released a new fact sheet highlighting how hospitals and health systems continue to experience financial challenges more than a year into the COVID-19 public health emergency.
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Sens. Shaheen, Collins introduce Medicare Sequester Relief Act

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced the Medicare Sequester Relief Act, bipartisan legislation that would prevent cuts to Medicare payments to health care providers from taking effect during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
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At AHA Advocacy event, Congress urged to provide relief from Medicare sequester cuts

Hundreds of hospital and health system leaders today participated in an AHA advocacy briefing to hear the latest on House and Senate bills that would extend the moratorium on the 2% Medicare sequester cuts, which are expected to resume on April 1 without additional congressional action.
Fact Sheets
Public

ICD-10-CM Coding for Human Trafficking Fact Sheets

Guidelines Documenting ICD-10 Codes and Other Sensitive Information in Elec
Fact Sheets
Public

Guidelines Documenting ICD-10 Codes and Other Sensitive Information in Electronic Health Record

In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted new ICD codes to describe human trafficking (HT). These specific HT codes allow healthcare professionals and others to optimize continuity of care for trafficked persons, determine health needs and effective treatments for HT-related health conditions, track cases of HT to assist in ensuring adequate resources are provided to communities, and inform local and national prevention and intervention policies.
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ICD-10-CM Coding for Human Trafficking

he first ICD-10-CM codes for classifying human trafficking abuse have been released. This page provides the latest coding resources.
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AHA Comments on the No Surprises Act’s Price Transparency Provisions

AHA urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to align the Hospital Price Transparency Rule with new transparency requirements included in the No Surprises Act.