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Special Bulletin: AHA Urges Private Insurers to Help Meet Historic Challenge to Respond to COVID-19

The AHA today urged leaders from the nation’s five largest private health insurance companies – Aetna, Anthem, Humana, Cigna and UnitedHealthCare – and organizations that represent insurers (America’s Health Insurance Plans and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association) to join hospitals and health systems to “meet the historic challenge” caused by COVID-19 to “ensure that the health care system is there for anyone who needs care.
Webinar Recordings
Member

Serious Illness, Palliative Care, and the Impact of COVID-19

This Center to Advance Palliative Care webinar for AHA members discusses tools, skills, and training that hospitals and health systems should deploy immediately to ensure appropriate symptom management and patient communication in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Letter/Comment

AHA Urges Private Insurers to Help Meet Historic Challenge to Respond to COVID-19

The AHA urged leaders from the nation’s five largest private health insurance companies – Aetna, Anthem, Humana, Cigna and UnitedHealthCare – and organizations that represent insurers (America’s Health Insurance Plans and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association) to join hospitals and health systems to “meet the historic challenge” caused by COVID-19.
News

DOL issues FAQs on employer provisions in Families First Coronavirus Response Act

The Department of Labor March 28 released a set of frequently asked questions, which included information on how it defines “health care provider” and “emergency responder” under policies established by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
News

HHS sets email address for hospital-specific COVID-19 questions

Hospitals and health systems are encouraged to direct COVID-19 questions to a new Department of Health and Human Services email.
News

Study finds presymptomatic COVID-19 transmission likely

Some COVID-ID patients in Singapore likely transmitted the virus to others on the island before they were symptomatic, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
News

CDC posts COVID-19 ICD-10-CM code

The official guidelines for the new ICD-10-CM code go into effect April 1 through Sept. 30 and have been posted by the Centers for Disease Control.
News

AHA issues Advisory on caring with limited resources during COVID-19 crisis

Responding to requests from hospitals and health systems, the AHA has compiled resources, tools and sample policies that hospital and clinical leaders may find helpful in developing their own organization’s approach to caring for patients with limited resources or under crisis circumstances.
News

CDC issues guidance on decontaminating filtering facepiece respirators

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health issued guidance on decontaminating disposable filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) for reuse during times of contingency and crisis capacity.
Initiatives/Campaigns

100 Million Mask Challenge: PPE Information and Guidance

The American Hospital Association and our partners continue to work to make sure that every health care provider can have access to much-need personal protective equipment especially during this health care crisis. Information, policies, procedures and best practices around PPEs are evolving quickly as the overall situation evolves. Here is a quick review of what we’re seeing in the field today with links, as available, for more information.