Headline
The latest stories from AHA Today.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last night confirmed a case of H5N1 bird flu in someone exposed to infected poultry in Colorado.
Medtronic this week alerted health care providers to a defect in its Heartware Ventricular Assist Device System that may cause the internal pump to malfunction.
The numbers reflect an increase from 27.1 million individuals in 2020.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released a report on the nine children recently hospitalized in Alabama with acute hepatitis of unknown origin who also had adenovirus.
Policymakers should strengthen Medicare payment rates rather than hold them up as the gold standard, argues Benjamin Finder, AHA’s director of policy research and analysis.
AHA today joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Association of American Medical Colleges in a friend-of-the-court brief asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut to dismiss the case.
DEA offers posters and other materials to help hospitals and other partners promote the event in their community.
The prize honors health care organizations that have demonstrated exceptional commitment to community service.
OIG found found 13% of coverage denials met Medicare coverage rules and 18% of payment denials met Medicare coverage and MA billing rules.
CMS today issued a final rule that will implement for 2023 the standards governing health insurance issuers and the Health Insurance Marketplaces.