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The Trump Administration March 28 announced that it renewed for one year the public emergency for ongoing malicious cyber-enabled activities against the U.S. The national emergency was first issued in April 2015.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment this week reported an outbreak of 23 measles cases in southwest Kansas, nearly all of which occurred in unvaccinated people.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a webinar April 8 at 2 p.m. ET to review the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development Model hospital global budget methodology.
The AHA and dozens of other organizations yesterday urged House and Senate sponsors of the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act to reauthorize and expand the program which allows foreign-born medical graduates trained in the U.S. to practice medicine in rural and underserved鈥
The Department of Health and Human Services March 27 announced a series of actions as part of a department-wide restructuring. The department said the moves would not impact critical services.
The AHA March 27 made a series of recommendations to the Physician鈥怓ocused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee to address barriers to participating in population-based total cost-of-care and primary and specialty care models.
The AHA March 27 voiced opposition to the Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act (H.R. 2191), a bill that would lift the ban on the establishment of physician-owned hospitals in certain rural areas and permit the unfettered expansion of POHs nationwide, regardless of location.
A new AHA blog pushes back on some new reports that 鈥渉ave displayed a gross misunderstanding of both the legitimacy of various Medicaid financing arrangements and the consequences of stripping those resources from states trying to provide health care access to their most vulnerable residents.鈥
The Senate March 25 confirmed Marty Makary as the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and Jay Bhattacharya as the new director of the National Institutes of Health. Makary was confirmed by a 56-44 vote, while Bhattacharya was confirmed by a 53-47 vote.
The FBI March 26 advised that, after extensive investigation and intelligence review, they have not identified any specific credible threat targeted against hospitals in any U.S. city. The FBI advised if they receive credible threat information, they will immediately advise any identified potential鈥