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The Department of Health and Human Services will invest $40 million to expand domestic manufacturing for active pharmaceutical ingredients, antibiotics and other essential medications, among other actions to support U.S. biotechnology and biomanufacturing.
The Joint Commission is reviewing its requirements that go beyond the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ conditions of participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs to determine whether it should permanently retire some of them.
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety today held a hearing on improving the immigration process to alleviate the domestic health care workforce shortage.
The House today passed by voice vote the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act (H.R. 3173), AHA-supported legislation that would streamline prior authorization requirements under Medicare Advantage plans.
Texas Health Frisco; Mayo Clinic Health System, NWWI, Eau Claire, Wisc.; and Orlando (Fla.) Regional Medical Center yesterday received 2022 Environmental Services Department of the Year Awards from the AHA’s Association for the Health Care Environment (AHE). The award recognizes a department’s…
AHA encourages hospitals and health systems to apply for its 2023 Quest for Quality Prize. The annual award recognizes health care leadership and innovation in improving quality and advancing the health of all individuals and communities. Applications are due Oct. 21.
Prenatal cannabis exposure after five to six weeks of pregnancy is associated with attention, social and behavioral problems that persist into early adolescence, according to a study reported yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics. Supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the study is tracking…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday approved for Oregon the first Medicaid state plan amendment to cover community-based mobile crisis intervention services, an option made available to states under the American Rescue Plan Act. Mobile crisis intervention services provide…
The Los Angeles Department of Public Health, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, yesterday confirmed the first death due to monkeypox in a Los Angeles County resident who was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized.
Commenting today on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed calendar year 2023 payment rule for hospital outpatients and ambulatory surgical centers, AHA said it supports the agency’s decision to end its unlawful cuts to 340B hospitals and urged the agency to promptly restore…