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Special Bulletin
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White House Launches New Initiative to Reduce Medical Debt Burden

The Vice President today announced several new actions from across the federal government aimed at learning more about the scope of medical debt practices, reducing the role that medical debt plays in accessing credit, forgiving low-income verterans’ medical debt, and improving consumer education around medical billing and financial assistance.
Fact Sheets
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No Surprises Act Implementation Handbook

The No Surprises Act established new patient protections against balance billing in certain circumstances, as well as put into place a number of other provisions that will change how providers and health plans engage with patients and each other with respect to price and coverage transparency, as well as billing. The following implementation guide is intended to help hospitals and health systems understand the new provisions in the law and corresponding regulations.
Special Bulletin
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White House Releases Executive Orders Aimed at Addressing High Drug Prices

President Trump today signed three executive orders aimed at lowering the price of prescription drugs. The first executive order seeks to pass federally-qualified health center (FQHC) insulin and EpiPen discounts directly to their patients.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Surge in Demand for Pediatric Behavioral Health Services Fuels Funding for Startup Brightline

Behavioral health startups that offer virtual care continue to draw strong interest from investors, with pediatric-focused Brightline being the latest example.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Inside Novant, Mayo, Advocate Innovation Initiatives

America’s hospitals and health systems and partners are driving innovation, advancing remote-patient monitoring, spurring artificial intelligence (AI) startups to early success and advancing new care models.
News

HHS to query health care providers on medical bill collection practices

As part of a White House initiative to reduce medical debt for consumers, HHS will ask more than 2,000 health care providers for data on their medical bill collection practices.
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FDA extends shelf life for refrigerated J&J COVID-19 vaccine, authorizes new OTC tests

The agency last week extended the J&J vaccine's shelf life and authorized two COVID-19 tests.
Letter/Comment
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AHA Expresses Support for the Rural Hospital Support Act (S. 4009)

AHA letter to Senator Casey and Senator Grassley, expressing support of the Rural Hospital Support Act (S. 4009).
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AHA Transformation Talks: Creating an effective digital front door

Learn how hospital and health system leaders are improving consumers’ digital experience by executing a comprehensive digital front-door strategy.
Transformation Talks

Advancing Innovation with a Cloud-Based Data Strategy | Transformation Talks

The path to effectively leverage health care data to support retrospective, real-time and predictive analytics requires that provider organizations closely examine how they collect, store and protect their data for staff, business partners and patients.