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This week is Black Maternal Health Week, and April is National Minority Health Month. It’s an opportunity to “deepen the conversation” about black maternal health in the U.S. and to highlight the “important role individuals and organizations can play” in helping to reduce health disparities and improve the health of racial and ethnic minority communities.

The final rule also codifies guidance on applying the changes beginning in contract year 2023.

MACPAC calls on CMS to increase transparency and oversight of directed payments in Medicaid managed care.

Medicare will only cover FDA-approved monoclonal antibodies that target amyloid to treat Alzheimer’s disease for beneficiaries enrolled in qualifying clinical trials.

The agency will accept comments until May 9 on ways to improve the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

The customizable toolkit offers resources to help prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

The AHA’s American Organization for Nursing Leadership will present 2022 awards for diversity, leadership and achievement during its annual conference next week in San Antonio.

For more than two full years – day in and day out – hospitals and health systems and their front-line caregivers have cared for patients, comforted families and protected communities during this unprecedented public health crisis. 

As Congress prepares to adjourn for its April recess, AHA today emphasized to congressional leaders the need for immediate additional support for hospitals and health systems.

Health care providers who missed the deadline to report on period 1 Provider Relief Funds due to certain extenuating circumstances may request April 11-22 to submit a late report.

Certain emergency blanket waivers issued for nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities and other settings in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency will end in 30 or 60 days, depending on the waiver.

Congress in December prohibited implementing the model before January 2023.

The agency recommends health care facilities that still use fixed endcap duodenoscopes complete their transition to newer models that can lower infection risks.

Comments are due June 6.

The legal principles discussed also apply to individuals with other types of substance use disorders.

AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk speaks with leaders from University of Vermont Medical Center about the attack.

Key takeaways from the recent 2020 Mom annual forum.

CMS plans to launch next week the online portal through which uninsured and self-pay patients may initiate the dispute resolution process. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a memorandum and provider-specific guidance on complying with the interim final rule.

Medicare and Medicaid will cover a second Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 booster at no cost to eligible enrollees.