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Bella Pharmaceuticals is voluntarily recalling all lots of unexpired sterile drug products due to lack of sterility assurance, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday. The products were distributed to health care facilities nationwide.
The recipients of the 2017 Circle of Life Award, Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership, Equity of Care Award, and AHA NOVA Award are spotlighted in new videos on the AHA's YouTube channel. The awards were presented last month at the AHA Leadership Summit in San…
Leaders from Jamaica and Flushing Hospitals, a safety-net hospital system in Queens, NY, will share how to apply value-based principles to radiology during a Sept. 14 webinar hosted by the AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and the American College of Radiology. For more information or to register…
Arizona hospitals contribute nearly $24 billion to the state and local economy and account for nearly 177,000 full-time jobs, according to a new report prepared for the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association by Rounds Consulting Group. “This report makes clear that Arizona hospitals are…
The AHA's Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management has elected as its chair-elect for 2018 Robert Taylor, senior vice president of supply chain at RWJBarnabas Health in Oceanport, NJ. As chair-elect, Taylor will become chair of the AHRMM board in 2019. The AHA personal…
As urged by the AHA and others, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services advisory panel today recommended that the agency not finalize for 2018 a proposal that would drastically cut Medicare payments for drugs acquired under the 340B Drug Pricing Program. In July, CMS proposed to pay…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday rescinded changes to its billing process for Partial Hospitalization Program services that were suspended last year.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response has released several new resources for health care coalitions. The resources include preparedness and response plan templates, a gap analysis tool, pandemic checklist and surge tool training. ASPR…
President Trump Friday signed into law the FDA Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2430). The bill reauthorizes and amends four FDA user fee programs under which companies that develop drugs and medical devices partially pay for premarket review of their products.
Commenting today on the proposed rule updating the clinician quality payment program for 2018, AHA applauded the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for responding to its long-standing request to develop a facility-based measurement option for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. The…