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The Federal Communications Commission today released a final rule adopting changes proposed last year to the Rural Health Care Program to improve the accuracy of urban and rural rates, funding cap rules and invoicing for the program, among other changes.
Over 30 organizations, including the AHA, yesterday urged congressional appropriators to increase funding for the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program to $738 million in fiscal year 2024. While the program trains half of the nation’s pediatricians and 60% of pediatric specialists…
Candida auris fungal infections tripled in the United States between 2019 and 2021 to 1,471, including seven cases resistant to all antifungal treatments, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data reported yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The National Resident Matching Program Friday matched 37,690 medical school seniors and graduates to U.S. residency positions, 2% more than last year.
The Department of Health and Human Services should adopt its proposed standard for claims attachments to help improve claims processing and eliminate unnecessary burdens on health care providers, AHA said in comments submitted today.
A recent Urban Institute report highlighting medical debt fails to examine how inadequate health coverage drives this debt, writes Molly Smith, AHA’s group vice president of public policy.
Responding today to a Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee Request for Information on the drivers of health care workforce shortages and potential solutions, AHA said “long-building structural changes within the health care workforce, combined with the profound toll of the COVID…
The Food and Drug Administration Friday authorized for emergency use a molecular test to detect mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) at the point of care in lesion swab specimens from individuals whose health care provider suspects they have the virus.
Deceptively branded as an effort to save the 340B program, a legislative campaign by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, National Association of Community Health Centers and other groups to remove many hospitals, eligible drugs and patients from the 340B program “would only…
The latest annual survey of state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program directors by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Georgetown University Center for Children and Families looks at state approaches to renewing Medicaid and CHIP enrollments over the past year and once the COVID-19 public…