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The Institute for Medicaid Innovation today released a new report that provides an overview of maternal behavioral health; risk factors, outcomes, and implications of maternal behavioral health disorders; barriers to obtaining behavioral health services; and opportunities for community organizations and Medicaid managed care to address maternal behavioral health.

The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation this week released a roadmap for reinventing U.S. health care.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released the home health prospective payment system final rule for calendar year 2019, which finalizes a major redesign for CY 2020.

The risk of a hospital patient having a health care-associated infection was 16 percent lower in 2015 than in 2011, largely due to declines in surgical site and urinary tract infections.

In a commentary published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, several maternal health experts suggest four actions that “every hospital” can adopt to reduce maternal mortality.

The Department of Health and Human Services today proposed implementing on Jan. 1 its final rule on 340B drug ceiling prices and civil monetary penalties for manufacturers.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today approved a Section 1115 demonstration waiver for Wisconsin that will require some adult beneficiaries under age 50 to work or participate in job training, community service or other "community engagement" activities at least 80 hours per month to remain eligible for Medicaid coverage.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday extended the timeline for publishing a final rule revising discharge planning requirements for hospitals, critical access hospitals and home health agencies to Nov. 3, 2019.

AHA today voiced support for the Maternal Health Accountability Act (S. 1112).

The Department of Health and Human Services this week opened a Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) at its headquarters in Washington, D.C.

The American Medical Association plans to award $15 million in grants over five years to graduate medical education sponsors, medical schools, health systems and specialty societies that partner to better align residency training with the evolving needs of patients, communities and the health care system.

The Food and Drug Administration last week approved a new antiviral flu medication for patients aged 12 and older.

U.S. hospitals treated an estimated 75,086 patients under age 18 for firearm-related injuries in the emergency department between 2006 and 2014.

Nov. 30 is the deadline to apply for the AHA's Institute for Diversity and Health Equity Certificate in Diversity Management fellowship.

When tragedy strikes, the role of hospitals and health systems is clear: respond, treat, and be a force for good.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late this afternoon released a proposed rule that would make programmatic and operational changes to the Medicare Advantage and prescription drug benefit programs for contract year 2020.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today updated the window-shopping feature at HealthCare.gov to allow consumers to preview 2019 health plans and prices before open enrollment begins Nov. 1.

Premiums for 2019 qualified health plans in the individual health insurance market are about 6 percent higher than they would be without the effective repeal of the individual mandate penalty and the expansion of short-term and association health plans,

Hospitals that left the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement program this year treated more medically complex and Medicaid patients and had lower joint-replacement volumes, according to a study published online this week in JAMA Internal Medicine.

An estimated 37.1 percent of U.S. adults received a flu vaccine during the 2017-18 flu season, down from 43.3 percent during the prior flu season.