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The Environmental Protection Agency this week presented AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering with a 2023 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year—Sustained Excellence Award, the program’s highest honor, for its long-term commitment to fighting climate change and protecting public health…
Medicare patients who have access to telehealth services and medications for opioid use disorder have lower risk of fatal drug overdose, according to a study reported yesterday in JAMA Psychiatry.
Effective today under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, medical devices seeking approval from the Food and Drug Administration must meet certain cybersecurity requirements if they connect to the internet and contain software and technological characteristics vulnerable to cybersecurity…
A district court judge in Texas today vacated nationwide an Affordable Care Act requirement that most group and individual health plans cover certain preventive health services without cost sharing. The Biden Administration is expected to appeal the ruling.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released FAQs on COVID-19 coverage after the public health emergency ends.
Responding yesterday to a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee request for input on reauthorization of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, AHA recommended actions to update the federal organizational structure and approach to data collection; strengthen the medical…
The Mississippi Hospital Association Cares Fund, created in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, is accepting donations to help Mississippi hospital employees directly affected by the recent tornado.
Learn how Advocate Children's Hospital is managing the “immunity gap” created by social distancing to persevere through the triple threat of COVID-19, RSV and flu.
A recent Washington Post article on medical debt “missed a major reason that medical debt has increased in our country: the rise of high-deductible and skinny insurance plans that result in larger out-of-pocket expenses for consumers,” writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in a letter to the…
In a blog published today, AHA refuted a number of suggestions that appeared in a recent Health Affairs column discussing what is behind the financial losses at large nonprofit hospitals.