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AHA Letter to CMS on Supporting Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) for Drugs Covered in Medicaid

On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, our clinician partners – including more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, 2 million nurses and other caregivers – and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership groups, the American Hospital Association (AHA) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed regulation related to supporting Medicaid drug value-based purchasing (VBP) arrangements and other changes to the Medicaid drug rebate program.
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AHA Statement on the Passing of Congressman John Lewis

Statement on the passing of Congressman John Lewis from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack.
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Chair File: Finding Joy in the Work and Mission

In 2016, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and former Archbishop Desmond Tutu spent one week together in deep discussion about joy. How to obtain it and hold on to it in a changing and often chaotic world.
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Senate Finance Committee issues report on 'concurrent and overlapping surgeries'

Senate Finance Committee leaders today issued a staff report on “concurrent and overlapping surgeries,” which the report describes as a practice involving a surgeon scheduling and conducting operat
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AHA board names Wright Lassiter, III, chair-elect designate

The American Hospital Association (AHA) Board of Trustees has selected Wright L. Lassiter, III, president and CEO of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Mich., as its chair-elect designate. Lassiter will be the 2022 chair of the AHA, becoming the top-elected official of the national organization that represents America’s hospitals and health systems and works to advance health in America.
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Opening Appeals Brief: Disclosure of Negotiated Charges, July 17, 2020

Opening Appeals Brief Negotiated Charges, (July 17, 2020)
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Appeals court upholds payment cut for off-campus outpatient departments

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed a district court decision that found the Department of Health and Human Services exceeded its statutory authority when it reduced payments for hospital outpatient services furnished in off-campus provider-based departments grandfathered under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.
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Blog: The future of minority mental health treatment depends on today

Raymond Waller, hospital administrator at Ascension Brighton Center for Recovery in Brighton, Mich., and 2020 chair of AHA's Behavioral Health Council, looks at substance use rates, stigma and the lack of Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) behavioral health care providers.
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ASPR, FDA hosting webinars July 21 on critical care and respirators

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response July 21 at 12 p.m. ET will host a COVID-19 webinar on “Critical Care: Lifesaving Treatment and Clinical Operations.”