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Hospitals and health systems ready to respond
America’s hospitals and health systems stand ready to identify, isolate and treat those who may have been exposed to the Wuhan coronavirus.
Cardinal Health recalls surgical gowns due to quality issue
Cardinal Health has notified customers of an urgent medical device recall related to specific production lots of single-sterile and bulk non-sterile Cardinal Non-Reinforced Surgical Gowns, Cardinal Fabric-Reinforced Surgical Gowns and RoyalSilk Non-Reinforced Surgical Gowns. View AHA and other resources.
Blog: Narrative on hospital mergers lacks rigor
Hospital mergers are worth discussing, but "too often the criticism is far from rigorous" and is "more like an echo chamber," write AHA General Counsel Melinda Hatton and others in an AHA Stat Blog post.
HHS alerts health sector to coronavirus-related phishing campaigns
Cyber criminals are using the 2019 novel coronavirus to launch malicious phishing campaigns, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response reported.
AHA Comments to CMS Extending the Stark Protections for Health IT Donation
AHA's comments on the CMS proposed rule that would extend the regulatory protections under the federal physician self-referral or Stark law for hospitals that want to provide assistance to physicians in adopting certain health information technology (IT).
Blog: Flawed article on hospital consolidation gets undeserved attention
In an AHA Stat Blog post, AHA General Counsel Melinda Hatton and others point out a number of flaws in a study on hospital consolidation and quality, and the way the news media covered it.
2020 Site Neutral Summary Judgment Brief (Feb. 2, 2020)
In September 2019, this Court issued a decision finding portions of the CMS rulemaking governing Medicare payments for hospital outpatient services for Calendar Year (CY) 2019 to be ultra vires, vacating those portions of the 2019 Final Rule. CMS filed a motion to modify the Court’s order to permit remand without vacatur, which the Court denied. Notwithstanding this Court’s rulings, CMS proceeded with a fresh rulemaking for CY 2020, in which it implemented the same payment rate reduction that this Court had already declared unlawful.
2020 Site Neutral Amended Complaint - Feb. 2, 2020
This is an action to challenge certain aspects of a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within HHS, for Medicare hospital outpatient services in calendar year (CY) 2020.