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As the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission considers Medicare payment adequacy, AHA today encouraged the panel to recommend adding a one-time retrospective adjustment to the fiscal year 2024 market basket updates to help hospitals and health systems remain financially viable.

AHA today urged Congress to take certain steps to strengthen the behavioral health workforce, reduce regulatory burdens for psychiatric facilities, and revise arbitrary and outdated payment policies that undervalue behavioral health services.

In this podcast, Kevin Biese, M.D., co-director of the Division of Geriatric Emergency Medicine with the University of North Carolina School Of Medicine, speaks with Marie Cleary Fishman, AHA’s vice president of clinical quality, about what emergency medicine can do to better serve aging patients.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday awarded public health departments $3.14 billion over five years to recruit, retain and train public health workers and improve their data, systems and processes.

U.S. hospitals and health systems in October experienced their 10th consecutive month of negative operating margins, Kaufman Hall reported today. Median operating margins were down 43% from a year ago, as high labor and other costs continued to outpace revenues and labor shortages delayed discharges and admissions.

In a letter yesterday, AHA and other national organizations urged congressional leaders to prevent the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 sequester from taking effect at the end of this session of Congress. 

AHA is releasing a cross-sector field guide on disaster and emergency preparedness in collaboration with national partners.

The AHA released a detailed summary of CMS' final rule for the calendar year 2023 home health prospective payment system.

HHS issued a new proposed rule revising the 2020 final rule that established the 340B Administrative Dispute Resolution process.

The Health and Human Services Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response launched a website to help address the current pediatric surge in respiratory illnesses that is impacting hospital capacity nationwide.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center Nov. 21 warned of a human-operated ransomware threat targeting larger organizations, with compromised targets observed in the health care and public sectors.

The World Health Organization today recommended a new name for monkeypox that is intended to mitigate a rise in related racist and stigmatizing language associated with the ailment. The WHO’s newly recommended preferred term is “mpox.”

AHA recently released two case studies focusing on behavioral health in young people.

A new memorandum from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is reinforcing the agency’s role in enforcing regulatory expectations that patients and hospital staff have an environment that prioritizes their safety to ensure effective delivery of health care.

The Department of Health and Human Services today issued a notice of public rulemaking to improve the exchange of patient records used in the treatment of substance use disorder.

On this episode, Wright Lassiter III talks with Eugene Woods, president and CEO of Atrium Health, based in Charlotte, N.C. , about the role of health systems within the U.S. health care system today and how scale can benefit communities and foster innovations.

Nearly 3.4 million people selected a 2023 health plan through the federally facilitated and state-based Marketplaces Nov. 1-19, CMS announced.

Hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations can sign up to host one or more interns for the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity’s 2023 Summer Enrichment Program, which begins the first week of June and runs through mid-August.

AHA Executive Vice President Michelle Hood previews the 2023 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, Feb. 19-22 in San Antonio, designed to help rural health care leaders transform their organizations through a focus on value and innovation.

In a study of symptomatic adults tested for SARS-CoV-2 at U.S. pharmacies since Sept. 14, bivalent COVID-19 vaccine boosters provided additional protection compared with previous vaccination with two or more monovalent doses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today. The benefit of the bivalent booster increased with time since receipt of the last monovalent dose.