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Sutter Health today announced terms of a settlement agreement to resolve an antitrust lawsuit with the United Food and Commercial Workers & Employers Benefit Trust (UEBT) on behalf of a class of California Self-Funded Payers and the California Attorney General.
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends two frameworks that medical professional societies, health care organizations, and state, national and local agencies could use to develop clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opioids to manage acute…
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved the first FDA-approved vaccine to prevent Ebola in adults with Zaire ebolavirus, which killed more than 10,000 people during a 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa.
The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering has launched two new programs for 2020.
The Senate today voted 71-23 to pass legislation (H.R. 1865) funding the Department of Health and Human Services and other non-Defense agencies for fiscal year 2020.
The AHA participated today in a White House summit on transforming mental health treatment to combat homelessness, violence and substance abuse.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today selected 10 states to receive funding under the Maternal Opioid Misuse Model to help coordinate and integrate health care and other services for pregnant and postpartum Medicaid enrollees with opioid use disorders beginning in 2021.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today updated its Medicare and Medicaid drug spending dashboards with 2018 data.
Combining low-tech and high-tech solutions has the greatest potential to help hospitals and health systems reduce cost, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience.
The opioid stewardship collaborative has extended its application deadline to Dec. 31.