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AHA has partnered with Musicians On Call, a nonprofit that brings live and recorded music to patients, to bring hospitalized veterans in all Veterans Affairs facilities the healing power of music this Veterans Day, Nov. 11, and all month long starting Monday. The virtual Concert For Veterans鈥
Hospitals and health systems added 10,800 jobs in October, while U.S. jobs overall increased by 261,000, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Total health care jobs grew by over 52,000 in October to a seasonally adjusted 16.6 million. Nursing and residential care鈥
AHA is making several recommendations in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 鈥淢ake Your Voice Heard鈥 request for information on promoting equity and efficiency within the agency鈥檚 programs. The comments, submitted to CMS today, focus on access to health care coverage;鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should require health insurers to use the existing claims processing framework to create a patient鈥檚 advanced explanation of benefits to ensure the AEOB closely reflects the patient鈥檚 final bill and cost information, the AHA told the agency today.
AHA today urged the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to order the Department of Health and Human Services to promptly repay 340B hospitals for unlawful payment cuts in previous years, given the agency鈥檚 continued delay in implementing or even proposing a remedy on its own.
The AHA today urged the National Labor Relations Board to withdraw a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the standard for determining joint-employer status or, consistent with the board鈥檚 historical approach, exempt hospitals from compliance.
The United States is experiencing a resurgence in non-COVID-19 respiratory viruses, with the flu hospitalization rate at this early time in the season the highest in a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today. Officials said they also are tracking elevated levels of鈥
The AHA鈥檚 Hospitals Against Violence initiative, Jones Day and HEAL Trafficking (Health, Education, Advocacy, Linkage) today held a special convening, Forced Labor in Health Care Supply Chains: What Hospital Leaders Need to Know to provide practical information and resources to health care鈥
The Food and Drug Administration this week alerted health care providers to a shortage of tracheostomy tubes, used to help people breathe after a tracheotomy, including a tube made by ICU Medical for pediatric patients.
The driving mission of all hospitals and health systems, regardless of size and location, is to provide quality and compassionate care to patients and advance health in their communities, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack states in an advertorial published today in the Wall Street Journal, noting鈥