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Chair File: Ensuring Rural Hospitals and Communities Are Healthy

Nearly 1,200 health care leaders from rural hospitals, health systems and health clinics, as well as rural associations and community health organizations, will convene Feb. 19–22 in San Antonio for the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

3 Ways Pharma Could Jolt Health Care in 2023

The market for biosimilar drugs to treat cancer, inflammatory diseases, diabetes and more will continue to expand, ideally resulting in lower prices as more pharmaceutical patents expire and competitors enter the market.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Will a Chatbot Be Just What the Doctor Ordered for Reimbursement Appeals?

The Doximity digital platform for medical professionals has launched a beta version of ChatGPT to help streamline time-sapping administrative tasks like drafting and faxing preauthorizations and appeals letters to insurers.
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Infographic: Rural Hospitals: Community Cornerstones Facing Perilous Threats to Care

Millions of people living in rural areas depend on their community’s hospital as an important — and often the only — source of local
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Rural Health News Update February 17, 2023

The following is a compilation of recent news from the AHA and its Rural Health Services team, whose focus is to ensure that rural hospitals’ and health systems’ unique needs are national priorities.
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AHA blog highlights CMS report showing hospitals are implementing price transparency policies and helping patients understand costs

A new blog from the AHA highlights a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services report that found that 70% of hospitals are in compliance with both parts of the Hospital Price Transparency Rule,
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FDA advances new recommendations on overdose prevention, considers over-the-counter Narcan

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued a report offering recommendations to address the opioid crisis and the role of analgesic oversight in preventing addiction, overdoses and deaths.
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Study: COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness may wane in younger children as well

Completing the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 monovalent vaccine primary series protects children aged 3-5 and 3-4, respectively, against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection for at least four months, according to a study in those ages released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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OIG: CMS could lower Medicare payment for 15 Part B drugs

In a report this week, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General identified 15 drug codes that in third-quarter 2022 met the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ criteria for substituting a lower Medicare price for certain Part B drugs.
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The Buzz on health care disruption: What to watch for in 2023

​​​​​​​The nation’s largest retail, payer and tech disruptors once again invested billions of dollars in health care in 2022, continuing to build out their visions to transform the field.