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The Change Healthcare cyberattack was a significant event that caught many off guard, said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, reiterating the agency鈥檚 commitment to supporting impacted hospitals. Brooks-LaSure stated the Administration is鈥
White House Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden spoke to Annual Meeting attendees about the environment hospitals and health systems are facing and the Biden Harris Administration鈥檚 efforts to strengthen the health care system so that it works for everyone.
Stacey Hughes, AHA鈥檚 executive vice president for government relations and public policy, discussed key messages that hospital and health system leaders should share with their lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack began AHA鈥檚 2024 Annual Meeting remarking on the essential work of hospitals and health systems, as well as the many challenges they are facing, including workforce shortages, underpayment, supply chain issues and cyberattacks.
Former AHA Board Chair John Bluford describes how the Bluford Healthcare Leadership Institute, which introduces talented minority undergraduate scholars to health care administration, is training young and diverse talent to assume leadership roles.
One in five Medicaid enrollees have been disenrolled since continuous coverage ended last March, a quarter of whom remain uninsured, according to a poll released April 12 by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The voluntary Episode Quality Improvement Program for specialist physicians saved Medicare $20 million in its first year, the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission announced April 11.
ASHP tracked a record 323 active drug shortages during the first quarter of 2024, surpassing the previous record of 320 shortages in 2014.
Commenting April 12 on a proposed rule to strengthen oversight of accrediting organizations, AHA told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services it supports requiring accrediting organizations to use Medicare鈥檚 Conditions of Participation and Conditions for Coverage as their minimum鈥
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 revised 鈥渂ulletin鈥 for HIPAA covered entities and business associates using online tracking technologies only confirms that the original bulletin was 鈥渟ubstantively and procedurally unlawful,鈥 AHA April 11 told a federal court hearing its challenge to a鈥