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Two House committees 鈥 Ways and Means, and Education and Labor 鈥 this week will mark up their own legislation to address surprise medical bills. The Ways and Means markup is Feb. 12 and the Education and Labor markup is Feb. 11.
On 06 January 2020, the FBI disseminated the FLASH message 鈥淜wampirs Malware Indicators of Compromise Employed in Ongoing Cyber Supply Chain Campaign Targeting Global Industries鈥 (CP-000111-MW). FLASH message CP-000111-MW provided indicators of compromise for the two identified modules of the鈥
The CMS Jan. 31 issued a proposed rule that would implement the standards governing health insurance issuers and the Health Insurance Marketplaces (or 鈥渆xchanges鈥) for 2021.
The AHA Feb. 5 at 1 p.m. ET will host a call for member hospitals and health systems featuring Cardinal Health leaders, who will discuss the latest developments and answer questions about its surgical gown recall. Steve Mason, CEO of medical segment; Robert Rajalingam, president of U.S. sales鈥
The AHA today hosted a call for hospital and health system leaders featuring Michael Bell, M.D., deputy director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion in CDC's National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases. Bell provided an update on the latest information on the issue and鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Jan. 30 released new Medicaid guidance to states that would enable them to apply for 1115 waiver authority to receive a defined amount of federal funding to cover services for certain healthy adults.
Special Bulletin: AHA Members-only Call on Feb. 3 with CDC Official on Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
The AHA Feb. 3 at noon ET will host a call for member hospitals and health systems featuring Michael Bell, M.D., deputy director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention鈥檚 National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases.
The U.S. Census Bureau is required to count the nation鈥檚 population every 10 years. In February, Census Bureau workers will contact health care facilities to ensure that certain people living in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and psychiatric hospital or psychiatric units for long-鈥
HPA spreadsheets for relative weights and payment rates for the hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) comparing 2020 to 2019 rates. There are two spreadsheets, one based on APC-level comparisons and the other on HCPCS-level comparisons.
The AHA has developed a model comment letter for hospitals and health systems to use to submit comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on its proposed regulation related to Medicaid program financing and supplemental payments. Because the proposed rule would severely curtail鈥