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FEMA Report Reviews Readiness, Response to 2017 Hurricane Season
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria caused a combined $265 billion in damage and each ranked among the top five costliest hurricanes on record.
Chair File: Value-based Strategies to Improve Health and Well-being
The Members in Action series, part of AHA’s The Value Initiative, highlights how hospitals and health systems are implementing new value-based strategies to improve health care affordability, quality and outcomes.
FDA Approves First Drug to Treat Smallpox; Recalls Valsartan Products
The Food and Drug Administration Friday approved the first drug intended to treat smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980 but could be used as a bioweapon.
AHA Supports Hospitals’ Challenge of Ballot Measure to Cap Prices
The AHA Friday filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting hospitals’ efforts to remove from a municipal ballot in November a union-backed measure that would impose pricing caps on hospitals and other health care providers, calling the measure not just misguided health care policy but also legally flawed.
AHA Hill Briefing Examines Cybersecurity Threats for Health Care
John Riggi, AHA senior advisor for cybersecurity and risk, said hospitals and health systems take seriously the protection of highly-sensitive and valuable information.
AHA Comments on HHS Drug Pricing Proposals
The AHA today submitted comments on the Department of Health and Human Services’ blueprint to lower drug prices and out-of-pocket costs.
Diversity Trailblazers Discuss Progress on Efforts to Accelerate Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity
Representatives of the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity’s founding members discussed the history of their organizations' early commitments to diversity, present-day work related to inclusion and the future for health equity.
AHA NOVA Award Winners Announced
Five hospital-led partnerships to improve community health will receive AHA NOVA Awards July 28 at the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego.
AHA, CHI and MGH Partner to Create ICD-10 Code for Sexual Trafficking
The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative, with Catholic Health Initiatives and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Human Trafficking Initiative and Freedom Clinic, recently secured diagnostic codes that will allow health and medical professionals to identify victims of human trafficking they encounter when they seek health care.
CMS Urged to Reconsider Decision to Suspend Risk Adjustment Payments
Twenty-eight health care organizations, including the AHA, yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reconsider its decision to suspend $10.4 billion in risk adjustment transfers to insurers for 2017 until certain litigation is resolved.