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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released guidance to clarify how states can use an existing Medicaid managed care option to reduce health disparities and address unmet health-related social needs
Workforce shortages and financial challenges are jeopardizing access to hospital care and services, writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in an advertorial today in the New York Times.
The Clop ransomware group has been sending health care facilities ransomware-infected medical files disguised to appear to come from legitimate doctors, then requesting a medical appointment in hopes they鈥檒l open and review the documents, the Department of Health and Human Services alerted the鈥
Matthew Stanley, D.O., vice president, behavioral health clinical service line, Avera Health (South Dakota) is the 2023 chair of AHA鈥檚 Committee on Behavioral Health.
In a study reported yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine, children and adolescents previously diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) reported no serious complications after COVID-19 vaccination.
U.S. hospitals and health systems continued to experience negative operating margins through November 2022, Kaufman Hall reported.
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response Friday deployed a 14-member National Disaster Medical System team to the University of New Mexico Children鈥檚 Hospital to help support staff caring for a surge in pediatric respiratory illnesses, such鈥
A recent Wall Street Journal article on hospital divestitures and closures 鈥渇ails to acknowledge the critical roles that low government reimbursement, population shifts and old infrastructure play鈥 when nonprofit health care systems make access decisions, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack writes鈥
AHA today thanked the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission for recommending a 2024 draft payment update of market basket plus 1% for hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems, but continued to recommend a market basket plus 2.8% update for inpatient and outpatient PPS hospitals鈥
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights yesterday announced a proposed rule with changes to the process for handling conscience complaints, while adding safeguards to protect against conscience and religious discrimination.