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In a letter to the editor published by Modern Healthcare, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responds to a recent report on hospital consolidation from Elevance Health — the large, for-profit commercial insurer formerly known as Anthem that dominates many insurer markets and earned nearly $2…
AHA Aug. 9 called the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ $957 million cut to Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospitals for fiscal year 2024 “simply unacceptable,” citing the agency’s “remarkable lack of transparency” in how the inpatient prospective payment system final rule calculates…
The Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management, an AHA professional membership group for health care supply chain professionals, presented its George R. Gossett Leadership Award to Dee Donatelli, senior director at symplr Spend, at its annual conference in Orlando, Fla.
“Health insurance should be a bridge to medical care, not a barrier. Yet too many commercial health insurance policies often delay, disrupt and deny medically necessary care to patients,” writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in an op-ed today in U.S. News & World Report.
The AHA has elected eight new members to its Board of Trustees for three-year terms beginning Jan. 1.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first pill to treat postpartum depression in adults, whose symptoms can range from sadness and loss of energy to cognitive impairment and suicidal ideation. Patients would take the drug (Zurzuvae) for 14 days.
U.S. and other allied nations’ cybersecurity agencies urged software vendors to implement secure design practices and organizations to implement a centralized patch management system and apply timely patches, noting that malicious actors in 2022 most often targeted known vulnerabilities.
The federal government must vacate nationwide its federal fee increase and batching rule for the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process for certain out-of-network providers and group health plans because they violate the Administrative Procedures Act’s notice-and-comment…
The AHA filed its comment letter on the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed remedy for the unlawful payment cuts to certain hospitals that participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program followin
At its National Human Trafficking Prevention Summit, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a national innovation challenge to prevent human trafficking of women and girls.