Advisory
AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
On June 28, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its calendar year (CY) 2022 proposed rule for the home health (HH) prospective payment system (PPS). Comments on the proposed rule are due to CMS by Aug. 27.
The departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury, along with the Office of Personnel Management, July 1 released 鈥淧art 1鈥 of regulations implementing the No Surprises Act.
Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability 鈥 known as PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-34527) 鈥 in the Windows Print spooler service.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) June 21 published in the Federal Register an emergency temporary standard (ETS) for occupational exposure to COVID-19 that requires health care employers to take certain steps to protect their workers in settings where suspected or confirmed鈥
Member advisory provides tools and resources to navigate current blood supply shortage.
A soon-to-be-released study on hospital debt-collection practices is beginning to receive significant media attention, including an article posted this morning. The article, based on a Johns Hopkins University analysis of data collected on the largest 100 hospitals in the U.S. by revenue for the鈥
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently announced expanded COVID-19 response efforts in rural communities. Specifically, HRSA will increase the number of vaccines sent to rural communities, expand testing and other COVID-19 prevention services, and work to increase vaccine鈥
At Issue
On April 27, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued its fiscal year 2022 proposed rule for the inpatient and long-term care hospital prospective payment systems. This advisory covers the rule鈥檚 LTCH-related provisions. We issued a separate advisory on the inpatient PPS鈥
This cyber advisory reflects the FBI鈥檚 May 20 Conti alert, along with resources from AHA and other organizations.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 27 issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) PPS proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2022. The rule affects inpatient PPS hospitals, critical access hospitals (CAHs), LTCHs and PPS-鈥