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Hospital emergency departments, primary care and behavioral health care organizations, public health agencies and tribal organizations may apply through March 30 for fiscal year 2020 grants to implement the Zero Suicide in Health Systems model.
In an AHA Stat Blog post, AHA General Counsel Melinda Hatton and others point out a number of flaws in a study on hospital consolidation and quality, and the way the news media covered it.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declared the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) a public health emergency and ordered all U.S. citizens returning from the Wuhan, China, region to be quarantined for two weeks.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released new Medicaid guidance to states that would enable them to apply for 1115 waiver authority to receive a defined amount of federal funding to cover services for certain healthy adults.
Cardinal Health, in coordination with the Food and Drug Administration, today announced actions involving 2.9 million procedure packs manufactured between September 2018 and January 2020 that contain surgical gowns recalled last week.
The AHA urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw a proposed rule related to Medicaid program financing and supplemental payments because it would “severely curtail the availability of health care services to millions of individuals” and “many of its provisions are not…
The AHA is accepting nominations through March 12 for outstanding clinicians to serve three years on its Committee on Clinical Leadership.
The National Governors Association urged CMS not move forward with its Medicaid fiscal accountability proposed rule as written.
The husband of a Chicago woman infected by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is the first individual in the U.S. to contract the illness via person-to-person contact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has identified the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System billing codes for hospital outpatient services that will require prior authorization starting July 1 under the hospital outpatient prospective payment system final rule for calendar year…