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The Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Payment and Access Commission released its March report to Congress, which recommends automatically increasing the federal share of Medicaid expenditures during economic downturns to support increased enrollment and decreased state revenue.

On this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Esther Corpuz, CEO of Alivio Medical Center in Chicago, talks about combating the COVID-19 pandemic through testing, vaccinations and education within the community.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response released "The Storm After the Storm: Healthcare in Texas Recovers from Severe Winter Weather.”

The Food and Drug Administration launched a dashboard that will provide weekly updates on adverse events submitted to its adverse event reporting system for COVID-19 drugs and biological products authorized for emergency use.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allocated $10 billion to states and territories from the American Rescue Plan Act to support testing to screen teachers, staff and students for COVID-19 to help reopen schools.

The House voted 415-3 to approve legislation (H.R. 1799) that would extend the Paycheck Protection Program through June 30, with applications accepted through May 31.

In response to feedback from AHA and others, UnitedHealthcare will allow hospitals and other health care providers to continue to access certain claims payment data through its Optum Pay platform at no cost.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a request for applications for practices and payers to participate in the Primary Care First Model beginning in January 2022.

“Though many parts of the US government and society have struggled to respond to COVID, large integrated multi-hospital health systems appear to have made a decisive difference in this pandemic,” consultants Jeff Goldsmith and Ian Morrison write in the Health Affairs Blog.

Moderna announced the administration of first COVID-19 vaccine doses to participants between the ages of 6 months and 12 years old as part of a phase 2/3 clinical trial. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a notice correcting technical errors in its final rule updating physician fee schedule payments for calendar year 2021.

Hospital and health system leaders are uniquely positioned to deploy strategies and solutions to advance health equity, diversity and inclusion and share those successes broadly, writes Joy Lewis, AHA senior vice president of health equity strategies and executive director of the AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, in a blog post highlighting a new resource released today.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a National Emphasis Program related to COVID-19 enforcement that expands upon OSHA’s current enforcement efforts by targeting specific high-hazard industries or activities where the risk of workers contracting COVID-19 is substantial.

The AHA released a new fact sheet highlighting how hospitals and health systems continue to experience financial challenges more than a year into the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced the Medicare Sequester Relief Act, bipartisan legislation that would prevent cuts to Medicare payments to health care providers from taking effect during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Hundreds of hospital and health system leaders today participated in an AHA advocacy briefing to hear the latest on House and Senate bills that would extend the moratorium on the 2% Medicare sequester cuts, which are expected to resume on April 1 without additional congressional action.

One way to demonstrate respect and not stigmatize when discussing people with mental health diagnoses is to use person-first language, writes Kelly Ryan, director of social services and doctoral tr

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission released its March report to Congress.

The Food and Drug Administration alerted clinical laboratories staff and health care providers to the potential for positive results from a test made by Roche Molecular Systems to simultaneously detect and differentiate SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A/B.

Medicare will nearly double what it pays to administer COVID-19 vaccines to about $40 per dose to better reflect the costs involved and help providers vaccinate more Americans, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.