Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
As COVID-19 cases surge again, four major health care organizations release updated guidance on maintaining essential surgery during the ongoing pandemic.
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The COVID Tracking Project announced that 85,836 people are currently hospitalized in the US with COVID-19 Monday - the 14th consecutive day of record-setting hospitalization numbers in the country, with concurrent increases in the numbers of coronavirus patients in intensive care…
Hospitals and health systems have demonstrated innovative leadership in acute care response throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The challenge going forward will be to continue the energy and enthusiasm of distributed, team-based, rapid problem-solving and use it to address other problems that…
UnitedHealthcare has delayed from April 1, 2021, until Jan. 1, 2022, its requirement that certain in-network laboratories report their unique laboratory-specific codes along with other information for the overwhelming majority of freestanding and outpatient laboratory testing services.
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The Department of Health and Human Services recently distributed 27,000 portable COVID-19 molecular test kits, which Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Texas can use at the point of care to verify antigen test results within 20 minutes.
Join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the tenth in a series of Leadership Rounds — short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country. Dr. Estes will joined by Claire Zangerle, MSN, MBA, RN, Chief Nurse Executive…
Nineteen organizations representing physicians and hospitals, including the AHA, urge congressional leaders to support legislation to freeze the thresholds for clinicians to qualify for advanced alternative payment model incentive payments for the 2021 and 2022 performance years.
Please join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the ninth in a series of Leadership Rounds — short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country. Dr. Estes is joined by Sarah Krevans, President and Chief Executive…
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November 19, 2020
AMA, AHA, ANA issue open letter urging public to scale back…