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Outdated Regs Impede Care Transformation
Last week, we released a report as part of the AHA’s on-going campaign seeking regulatory relief for hospitals and health systems. It highlights how outdated fraud and abuse regulations created under the Stark and Anti-Kickback laws are barriers to transforming patient care.
Scanning the Headlines: Clinical Integration
Antitrust and other legal/regulatory issues re: clinical integration where hospitals and physicians work together, such as gainsharing, provision of physicians with IT, etc. Also any general discussion of clinical integration as it relates especially to caring for the patient with chronic disease across the continuum of care.
Denying nurses' request for union representative flouts law, NLRB rules
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) August 28 ruled that Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kan., violated the National Labor Relations Act by denying two nurses’ requests for a union representative when they appeared before its nursing peer review committee, and by failing and refusing to provide information requested by the union relating to the peer review process.
Use of Telehealth in Hospitals and Health Systems—Members in Action
Case studies of how hospitals and health systems are using telehealth to expand access and improve care in their communities.
At Hill Briefing, AHA Calls for Reining in Drug Costs, Reducing Regulatory Burden
Congress and the administration should pursue actions, including addressing the high costs of prescription drugs and regulatory burden on providers, that will help reduce the cost of care without putting access at risk.
SUPPORT Act reauthorization bill passes in House, advances in Senate
The House Dec. 12 voted 386-37 to pass AHA-supported legislation (H.R. 4531) that would reauthorize key SUPPORT Act programs for patients with substance use disorder and permanently extend required Medicaid coverage for medication-assisted treatments.
AHA shares regulatory relief priorities with CMS
AHA participated today in a stakeholder listening session hosted by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to formally launch the agency’s regulatory relief effort.
Agencies issue memory safe programming guidance, spear-phishing update
In new guidance for software manufacturers, cybersecurity agencies in the U.S. and United Kingdom urge every software manufacturer to implement memory safe programming languages (MSLs) and publish a roadmap that details how they will eliminate MSL vulnerabilities in their products.
ONC launches national health information exchange network
Five Qualified Health Information Networks Dec. 12 began exchanging electronic health information nationwide under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, a set of common rules for secure exchange of treatment and other health information required by the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced.
AHA Comments on the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act
AHA comments on the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act.