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Creating a Support System for Black Women Leaders and CEOs

For Black women who are hospital and health system CEOs, it's been difficult to find and connect with others like themselves.
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CMS webinar June 27 on IRF Review Choice Demonstration

The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services will host a June 27 webinar on its Review Choice Demonstration for Inpatient Rehabilitation Services, which will begin Aug. 21 in Alabama and expand to additional states at an undetermined date.
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Members of Congress urge CMS to further streamline prior authorization

A bipartisan group of 233 representatives and 61 senators called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service to enhance its proposal to streamline prior authorization processes in Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and the federally-facilitated Marketplace to require real-time electronic decision-making for routinely approved services, responses for emergency procedures within 24 hours and additional transparency.
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HHS reports 57% decline in hospital maternal death rates since 2008

Delivery-related maternal mortality in U.S. hospitals decreased for all racial and ethnic groups, age groups and modes of delivery during 2008 to 2021, likely due to national strategies to improve delivery-related hospital care, the Department of Health and Human Services reported.
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FTC Proposes Changes to Health Breach Notification Rule

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) June 9 released for public comment a notice of proposed changes to breach notification requirements for entities that collect health information but are not covered by privacy and security requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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AHA advises Congress how to advance MACRA payment models

In a letter submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations for a hearing on challenges implementing value-based and alternative payment models under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, AHA encouraged certain statutory and regulatory policies to advance and flexibly implement these models.
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House members urge CMS to adjust FY 2024 inpatient payment update  

A bipartisan group of 87 representatives urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reevaluate its proposed payment update for the inpatient prospective payment system for fiscal year 2024, expressing concern that the proposed update does not accurately reflect the current costs of providing care to patients or the high financial pressures that hospitals face.
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UCHealth Streamlines Inpatient Flow with AI and Workflow Automation

Join us to learn how leaders at UC Health have moved beyond dashboards and paper/Excel-based daily reports and are leveraging cloud-based AI technology via a “smart, portable capacity command center” and achieving impressive results to increase patient access to care.
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House Members Urge CMS to Adjust FY 2024 Inpatient Payment Update 

A bipartisan group of 87 representatives urged (LINK) the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reevaluate its proposed payment update for the inpatient prospective payment system for fiscal year 2024, expressing concern that the proposed update does not accurately reflect the current costs of providing care to patients or the high financial pressures that hospitals face.