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Labor costs and volume disruptions drove declines in operating margins for nonprofit hospitals and health systems in fiscal 2022, Moody’s Investors Service reported yesterday based on preliminary medians data from 132 health systems.
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) today approved four recommendations to Congress that would amend the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program.
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to amend its Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act declaration for COVID-19 to extend liability protections for certain COVID-19 countermeasure activities beyond the May 11 end of the public health emergency, the agency announced today.
As urged by the AHA, the U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously reversed a 9th Circuit decision that impliedly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the Federal Trade Commission structure, procedures and existence.
Marna P. Borgstrom, who retired last March as CEO of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health, and Andy Carter, who will retire in June as president and CEO of The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, will receive 2023 AHA Board of Trustees Awards April 24 at the AHA Annual Membership…
With spring in full bloom, AHA is offering for hospitals and health system a social media toolkit promoting COVID-19 vaccination and boosters.
About 100,000 registered nurses left the workforce during the past two years due to stress, burnout and retirements, and another 610,388 reported an intent to leave by 2027, according to a study released by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today voted to recommend Congress adopt additional site-neutral payment policies for certain outpatient services; reduce add-on payments and adopt other policies to address high Medicare Part B drug costs; and repeal the existing Medicare wage index system…
The latest threat brief from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Information Security and Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) reviews the top cyber threats to electronic medical records and best practices to help health care organizations prevent, detect and…
The Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights today released a proposed rule that would prohibit entities regulated by the HIPAA Privacy Rule from using or disclosing protected health information to investigate or prosecute patients, providers or others involved in…