News

President Biden directed the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to consider new payment and delivery models to lower drug costs and promote access to innovative drug therapies for beneficiaries.

CMS will extend through 2025 the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model, which was set to expire this year.

FEMA released guidance outlining the process the agency will use to identify and reduce COVID-19 Public Assistance funding for any expense for which funding has already been received from another program or source.

That commitment to being always there and ready to care is being tested as hospitals and health systems navigate historic workforce shortages, broken supply chains, rapid inflation that has increased the cost of caring, and other severe financial pressures that could jeopardize access to care.

AHA had urged the agency to renew the emergency to continue critical flexibilities.

The market for pharmacy benefit manager services is highly concentrated, with commercial insurers often sharing ownership in the PBM, according to the analysis.

The guide offers resources to help organizations build a community health worker program to strengthen their health care workforce.

AHA's Institute for Diversity and Health Equity held its latest Health Equity Innovation Summit, which explored regional challenges and solutions to accelerate health equity.

The panel also recommended screening children aged 12-18 for major depressive disorder, as it did in 2016.

Kimberly Wells, CEO of Pinewood Springs mental health and wellness hospital in Columbia, Tenn., shares how the HCA Healthcare facility is integrating physical and behavioral health care to improve patients’ lives.

With the start of flu season, AHA is providing a new batch of Halloween- and autumn-themed resources for hospitals’ and health systems’ use to encourage influenza and COVID-19 vaccination.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today recommended Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster for children aged 6-17 and Pfizer’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster for children aged 5-11 after the Food and Drug Administration authorized them for these ages.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response will host a Nov. 7 webinar on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to help hospitals and health systems manage emerging infectious diseases.

“For three decades, the 340B drug pricing program has helped hospitals that serve high numbers of low-income patients offer and expand a range of important programs and services that advance health within their communities,” writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in the Congress Blog at The Hill.

The Internal Revenue Service today finalized a rule revising its methodology for assessing whether employer-sponsored coverage is affordable for family members, as advocated by the AHA.

The Florida Hospital Association Research and Education Foundation has established a Health Care Heroes Relief Fund to provide immediate financial support to hospital employees displaced by Hurricane Ian. 

The FDA authorized for emergency use the first commercial test kit to detect monkeypox in lesion swab specimens.

During the COVID-19 public health emergency, CMS will continue to exercise enforcement discretion under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments to allow providers to test asymptomatic individuals using certain point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 tests authorized for symptomatic individuals, CMS announced.

It’s that time of year again … time to get a flu vaccine. We know that getting a flu vaccine is the best defense against seasonal influenza viruses and potentially severe consequences including hospitalization and death. And this flu season, many people can get a COVID-19 vaccine or booster at the same time.

The National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI yesterday urged U.S. critical infrastructure and other organizations to take certain actions to protect their systems from known vulnerabilities that China state-sponsored actors continue to exploit to target intellectual property and sensitive networks. In a separate presentation, the Department of Health and Human Services yesterday warned health care organizations that threat actors are increasingly using legitimate network security tools for malicious purposes.