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The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will have sufficient funds to pay full benefits until 2026, according to the latest annual report from the Medicare Board of Trustees.
The Health Resources and Service Administration announced that the National Practitioner Data Bank will reimburse entities that conducted queries (one-time and continuous) via query credits, retroactive to March 1, 2020, and lasting through May 31.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services approved a state of Washington-developed emergency demonstration project to adjust its Medicaid program temporarily in order to combat COVID-19.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response has shared a number of new COVID-19-related resources, including alternate care toolkits and strategies; webinars on relieving health care worker stress and crisis standards of care; and a…
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to approve a Healthy Adult Opportunity demonstration waiver for its new low-income adult Medicaid population.
The Food and Drug Administration recently announced that Avet Pharmaceuticals Inc. issued a voluntary recall of the antibiotic, tetracycline, specifically, Tetracycline HCl Capsules USP, 250 mg and 500 mg, distributed under the Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc. label.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has launched a webpage to address questions about importing personal protective equipment and other medical products during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created stresses that most health care workers have never experienced, writes Robert Trestman, M.D., of Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Va., and 2020 chair-elect of AHA’s Behavioral Health Council. Read more about the resources available for front-line workers.
In this AHA blog, Priya Bathija, AHA vice president of strategic initiatives, shares stories of health care heroes stepping up to address the challenge of COVID-19 and ways the public can support them.
In this AHA blog, Priya Bathija, AHA vice president of strategic initiatives, shares stories of health care heroes stepping up to address the challenge of COVID-19 and ways the public can support them.