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Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao last week named a committee to advise Congress and the departments of Health and Human Services and Transportation on issues relating to air ambulance services and patient billing.

Rebates reduced the growth in Medicare Part D spending for brand-name drugs between 2011 and 2015, but spending for brand-name drugs with rebates still grew by $2 billion or over the five-year period

As health care in our nation transforms, one thing remains constant for America’s hospitals and health systems: our unwavering commitment to providing safe, high-quality, patient-centric care.

The AHA and five other hospital groups today filed a friend-of-the c

The Drug Enforcement Administration this week proposed reducing aggregate production quotas for five opioid controlled substances in 2020.

NASEM will hold a public workshop Sept. 19 on population health improvement models.

The AHA this week sponsored two sessions at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 2019 Annual Legislative Conference.

The Association for the Healthcare Environment, an AHA professional membership group, recently presented its 2019 awards for excellence in caring for the health care environment.

As cornerstones of your communities, hospital and health system leaders have the unique authority to lead initiatives to reduce the risk for violence and advocate for advancing health.

The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw its proposal to rescind a 2015 rule that requires states to develop and submit access monitoring review plans for certain Medicaid services.

HRSA today awarded states, territories and nonprofit organizations $351 million to provide voluntary home visiting services to pregnant women and parents with young children through its Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.

A new report from the AHA Center for Health Innovation and EY examines how digital health technologies are shifting the care location to anywhere, anytime and the care model to preventive, personalized and participatory.

The AHA has made a donation to the American Red Cross to help the Bahamas recover from Hurricane Dorian.

More than 2,000 health care strategists — including marketing, strategic planning, business development and communications/public relations professionals — attended the annual meeting of the AHA’s Society for Health Care Strategy and Market Development this week in Nashville.

The rule would force millions of immigrants “to choose between accepting public services and accepting a green card … an impossible choice,” the brief states. 

HHS released updated guidance to help providers safely manage Category A waste.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine calls for a national agenda to improve mental, emotional and behavioral health in children and youth.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released three new modules in its series of free online training courses to help health care organizations prevent and control infections.

More than 300 hospital and health system leaders today gathered in Washington, D.C., to urge their lawmakers to take action on critical issues facing patients and protect access to care. During an AHA Advocacy Day briefing, AHA leaders gave updates on Capitol Hill developments and outlined some of the association’s main priorities.

To deliver higher quality care at lower costs, we must move from fee-for-service payments to “a system in which we’re paying providers to keep people healthy, reduce costs and deliver better outcomes,” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma today told AHA members. The administration “is doing everything we can to accelerate the implementation of financial incentives to drive costs down and improve quality,” she said.