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Panel releases national plan to accelerate patient safety progress

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s National Steering Committee for Patient Safety, whose members include the AHA and its American Organization for Nursing Leadership, released a national action plan to accelerate patient safety progress across the care continuum.
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Report looks at cost to health system of brand name drug tactic

A new study demonstrates the cost to the U.S. health care system from an anti-competitive tactic known as “product hopping,” which involves a brand name drug company moving patients to a new reformulated version of a drug when an existing drug’s exclusivity is close to expiring.
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New executive order seeks new model to address drug prices

President Trump issued a new executive order that seeks to lower prescription drug prices. The order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to test a “most-favored-nation” pricing model for Part B, and some Part D, drugs.
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Relief fund to help hospital workers displaced by wildfires

The Oregon Association of Hospitals Research & Education Foundation has established a relief fund to support hospital workers affected by the state’s wildfires, as well as future disasters.
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NIOSH considering adding other masks to national stockpile to relieve N95 shortages

To ease the continued strain on the N95 supply chain and Strategic National Stockpile, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is considering whether the federal government should buy and deploy elastomeric half-mask respirators in health care settings and emergency medical services organizations during the COVID-19 crisis.
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DOL revises Families First Coronavirus Response Act rule expanding paid leave

The Department of Labor released a temporary rule revising regulations implementing certain paid leave provisions through Dec. 31 under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
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Hospital Groups Petition for Rehearing Re: 340 B Payment Reductions (Sept. 14, 2020)

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
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White House Releases Executive Orders Aimed at Addressing High Drug Prices

Summary of President Trump’s executive order to address drug pricing via “most-favored-nation” pricing model.
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Blog: Front-line Workers Step Up During Record Wildfires

Americans everywhere have watched with increasing dismay and alarm as 94 major wildfires continue to incinerate wide swaths of our beautiful Western states. As of this writing, the infernos — which are most heavily concentrated in California, Washington, Oregon and Idaho — have scorched nearly 5 million acres, an area approximately the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.