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The Senate today voted 80-17 to approve a bill funding the government and raising the debt ceiling though Dec. 8, and providing more than $15 billion in aid for hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The measure now moves to the House. The government’s current funding expires Oct. 1.
The Senate Finance Committee today held a hearing on the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers 8.9 million children with family incomes above Medicaid eligibility limits who lack access to affordable private coverage. While the program is authorized through Oct. 1, 2019, legislative…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today held the second in a series of bipartisan hearings aimed at producing legislation to stabilize the individual health insurance market. Today’s witnesses included Govs. Charlie Baker (R-MA), Steve Bullock (D-MT), Bill Haslam (R-…
The Senate Appropriations Committee today voted 30-1 to approve legislation that would provide $164.1 billion in discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education in fiscal year 2018. According to the committee, the bill would provide $79.4 billion for HHS…
he AHA today released a one-page guide to help hospital and health system board members and leaders in vulnerable communities implement a multi-step strategy to address the underlying social conditions that often prevent individuals from being able to access health care or achieve health goals.
The House of Representatives today voted 419-3 to approve $7.85 billion as part of an initial Hurricane Harvey relief package. Specifically, the bill would provide $7.4 billion to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief fund and $450 million for the Small Business…
As the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee holds a series of bipartisan hearings on stabilizing the individual health insurance market, AHA and seven other organizations urged the committee to fund cost-sharing reduction benefits for at least two years.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released an online training course for state survey agencies that will evaluate compliance with new emergency preparedness requirements for hospitals and other providers beginning Nov. 15. The course also is available to providers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday awarded $28.6 million to help 44 states and the District of Columbia respond to the opioid overdose epidemic. The funds will be used to scale up prevention activities and prescription drug monitoring programs and better track opioid-…
The AHA this week is running print and digital ads in Modern Healthcare on how to support hospital employees affected by Hurricane Harvey. “Please help support the Texas hospital employees whose lives have been impacted by the devastating destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey,” the ad…