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The latest stories from AHA Today.
The AHA urged President-elect Biden to implement during his first 100 days in office urgent policy recommendations to ensure America’s hospitals can continue to fight the pandemic, recover and rebuild a better health care system for the future.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule that seeks to streamline prior authorization processes implemented by health plans serving the Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program and federal Health Insurance Marketplace.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the expansion of its effort to provide viewable, downloadable county-level data on health-related outcomes and chronic disease prevalence.
More than 3.8 million people selected a 2021 health plan through HealthCare.gov Nov. 1 to Dec. 5, including more than 915,000 last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a request for applications from Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans to participate in the Value-Based Insurance Design Model, including its hospice benefit component, in calendar year 2022.
President-elect Joe Biden nominated former White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. McDonough also previously served the Obama administration as deputy national security advisor.
The Health Resources and Services Administration released its long-awaited final rule implementing an Affordable Care Act requirement that the agency establish a process to resolve disputes between 340B covered entities and drug manufacturers.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights released a proposed rule that would modify HIPAA privacy standards for individually identifiable health information.
With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting some individuals and communities much more than others, population health tools are more important than ever.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized LabCorp’s Pixel COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit for use by adults without a prescription.