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AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Micro-Innovation Can Deliver Oversized Results

A select few individuals will come up with once-in-a-generation innovations like developing a new drug or a life-saving medical procedure. Linkner encourages leaders to focus on innovations that bring incremental advances, which can bridge to larger breakthroughs.
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In site-neutral ruling, judge says CMS appears to put itself ‘above the law’

A federal judge today said hospitals must file claims next year to show the effects of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ calendar year 2020 final rule that reduces payments for hospital outpatient services provided in off-campus provider-based departments grandfathered under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. Judge Rosemary Collyer said today that her September ruling declaring the payment cuts unlawful was limited only to the 2019 final rule. 
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AHA Senate Statement: “Protecting Youth Mental Health: Part II - Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Care”

Statement of the American Hospital Association to the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate
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AHA receives awards for excellence in marketing and communications

The AHA received two gold MarCom Awards – the highest award given – for the association’s two most recent National Hospital Week videos.
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AHA, AONL voice support for Momnibus Act

Members of the Black Maternal Health Caucus introduced a package of bills supported by the AHA and its American Organization for Nursing Leadership to prevent maternal mortality and racial and ethnic disparities in outcomes. 
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Admission Testing Center: Reduction in Time Required for Patient Throughput

Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section patients by the Admission Testing Center (ATC) was taking 2.25 hours on average (and up to four hours) t
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

How Can You Address Increasing Demand for Behavioral Health Services?

Heightened demand for behavioral health services has presented hospitals and health systems with challenges and opportunities to increase capacity, forge partnerships to deliver care to patients and caregivers, and leverage tools to assess their capabilities.
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Senate holds hearing on telehealth expansion

The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee held a hearing on telehealth lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CMS reevaluates Accelerated Payment Program and Suspends Advance Payment Program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services April 26 announced it is reevaluating the amounts that will be paid under its Accelerated Payment Program and suspending its Advance Payment Program effective immediately.