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CMS report highlights strategies to reduce telehealth barriers for treatment of pediatric substance use disorders
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a final report identifying best practices and potential solutions for reducing barriers in the use of telehealth for the treatment of substance use disorders among Medicaid’s pediatric populations.
Nursing leader honored for leadership excellence
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership will present its 2020 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award to Beverly Malone, CEO of the National League for Nursing.
Partnerships with Post-Acute Care Hospitals Key to COVID-19 Response
Recent weeks of surging COVID-19 cases in Texas have strained the state’s health care system. In response, post-acute care hospitals are forging closer relationships with their referral partners to optimize resources needed to treat COVID-19-positive and medically complex recovering COVID-19 patients. Highacuity COVID-19 patients often require more extensive clinical services over a longer period of time.
AHA statement on CY 2021 Outpatient PPS rule
AHA statement on the CY OPPS proposed rule from Executive Vice President Tom Nickels.
The Value Initiative Issue Brief: Creating Value with Age-Friendly Health Systems
With the number of older adults in the United States projected to double in the next 40 years, hospitals and health systems are adapting low-tech, value-based strategies to improve patient outcomes for older adults. This issue brief highlights ways that age-friendly care’s 4Ms Framework and measures enable value, along with case examples and considerations for becoming an Age-Friendly Health System.
AHA urges IRS to reconsider health care sharing ministries proposal
The AHA urged the Internal Revenue Services to remove the treatment of health care sharing ministries from a proposed rule issued by the agency in June.
FDA approves new lung cancer diagnostic tool, intraveneous opioid
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first liquid biopsy companion diagnostic that uses next-generation sequencing technology to identify patients with specific gene mutations in a deadly form of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
FEMA authorized to use $44 billion of disaster funds for unemployment benefits
President Trump authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency to use up to $44 billion in Stafford Act disaster relief funds to supplement individuals’ wages resulting from lost work due to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
FDA revokes authorization for antibody test
The Food and Drug Administration revoked its emergency use authorization for a SARS-CoV-2 antibody test made by Autobio Diagnostics Co. due to concerns with the accuracy of the test when evaluated at the National Institutes of Health’s Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.
HRSA to start allocating next CARES Act relief for nursing homes in mid-August
The Health Resources and Services Administration expects in mid-August to distribute half of the $5 billion in Provider Relief Funds announced last month to enhance COVID-19 response at Medicare-certified long-term care facilities, the agency said Friday.