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The AHA released a new issue of the COVID-19 Snapshot underscoring the persisting challenges facing hospitals and health systems during the ongoing public health emergency.
UnitedHealth Group and/or its affiliates will pay over $13 million to resolve federal, state and private litigation alleging violations of federal and state mental health parity laws, according to court filings in New York.
President Biden urged Congress to allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and cap the amount beneficiaries pay out-of-pocket for drugs each year.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced that the agency will require the 25,000 members of its health care workforce to be vaccinated against COVID-19. HHS said this group includes employees, contractors, trainees, and volunteers whose duties put them in contact or potential…
Public, nonprofit and tribal organizations can apply until Oct. 12 for a portion of $500 million in American Rescue Plan Act grants to expand access to COVID-19 testing and vaccines, rural health care services, and food assistance through food banks and food distribution facilities.
The Senate approved on a party line vote a $3.5 trillion budget resolution, which included reconciliation instructions which will provide the majority party with the means to pass a comprehensive reconciliation package with just 51 votes in the Senate, rather than the usual 60-vote hurdle.
Elisa Arespacochaga, AHA’s vice president of clinical affairs and workforce, outlines the critical importance of clinician well-being programs to help address physician burnout and suicides and workforce shortages, particularly during the COVID-19 public health crisis.
In this Advancing Health podcast, Emily Volk, chief medical officer at Baptist Health Floyd Hospital in New Albany, Ind., explains her hospital’s use of eight strategies when handling crises and challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and the value that pathologists can provide in such moments…
The American College of Surgeons has released guidance to help surgeons conserve blood and blood products during the current shortage.
The AHA joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Medical Association in urging the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to void a district court decision that refused to allow a case involving the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005 to proceed in federal court and sent it back…