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Home Health Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule for CY 2024

On June 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its calendar year (CY) 2024 proposed rule for the home health (HH) prospective payment system (PPS).
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What Is a CLABSI and How to Prevent It

In this episode of the Advancing Health podcast series, Nishant Prasad, M.D., attending physician and program director of infectious diseases at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, shares how they re-approached CLABSI prevention by deeply examining structure and process, and how their work got them to zero CLABSIs in the last year.
News

Chair File: Recognizing Leadership and Innovation in Health Care Quality

Each year, the AHA Quest for Quality Prize recognizes hospitals and health systems that have committed to and are making significant progress toward providing exceptional care to patients based on those six “STEEEP” aims.
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CISA urges action to protect against Citrix vulnerability

Malicious actors recently exploited a Citrix vulnerability to steal active directory data from a critical infrastructure organization, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reported recently, urging organizations to take certain steps to detect a potential system compromise and apply patches.
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HHS Hospital Resilience Landscape Analysis: Examining U.S. Hospitals’ Cyber Preparedness

The speakers will evaluate the current cyberthreats faced by hospitals and the entire healthcare and public health sector, as well as analyze hospital cybersecurity capabilities and resources benchmarked against the Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) 2 publication. You’ll gain a clearer understanding of where we are getting hit and what mitigations may be most effective against those threats.
Guides/Reports

Cybersecurity Advisory: Threat Actors Exploiting Citrix CVE-2023-3519 to Implant Webshells

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is releasing this Cybersecurity Advisory to warn network defenders about exploitation of CVE-2023-3519, an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting NetScaler (formerly Citrix) Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and NetScaler Gateway.
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AHA blog: A Second Life for Ambulances Is Saving Lives in Ukraine 

With the generous support of many people and organizations, Chris Manson, vice president for government relations at OSF HealthCare in Peoria, Ill., has helped deliver over 50 ambulances and tons of medical supplies to Ukraine since March 2022
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Proposed rule targets health plan mental health parity compliance

The departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury released a proposed rule that seeks to ensure commercial health plans comply with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, which prohibits them from imposing more restrictive requirements on mental health or substance use disorder benefits than on medical and surgical benefits.
Press Releases

AHA Statement on Patient Rights Advocate Price Transparency Report

Once again, Patient Rights Advocate has put out a report that blatantly misconstrues, ignores, and mischaracterizes hospitals’ compliance with federal price transparency regulations. The AHA has repeatedly debunked point-by-point Patient Rights Advocate’s intentionally misleading “reports” on price transparency, including earlier this year in a blog and op-ed.
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Championing Health Equity