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AHA yesterday asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to order the Department of Health and Human Services to immediately stop underpaying certain hospitals that participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program and promptly repay them for the unlawful cuts since 2018 without penalizing other hospitals.

President Biden named Federal Emergency Management Agency Region 9 Administrator Robert Fenton to coordinate the administration’s monkeypox response.

As directed by President Biden in April, HHA released a national plan for researching the long-term effects of COVID-19, and a report on federally funded services available to help health care providers and patients address these long-term effects.  

President Biden today directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consider actions to expand access to abortion and other reproductive health services through Medicaid.

The Environmental Protection Agency released a list of commercial medical device sterilizing facilities where lifetime risk from ethylene oxide emissions are highest to people who live nearby.

AHA's John Supplitt and Aisha Syeda joined the Rural Health Information Hub’s Exploring Rural Health podcast to discuss rural health care challenges and solutions.

William Daniel "Dan" Barker Jr., who served as chair of the AHA Board of Trustees in 1979 and in various leadership roles over six decades with Emory University Health System, died on his 96th birthday July 21 at his home in Atlanta.

The AHA has elected six new members to its Board of Trustees for three-year terms beginning Jan. 1.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released guidance on an optional home health services benefit for Medicaid-eligible children with medically complex conditions effective Oct. 1 under the Medicaid Services Investment and Accountability Act of 2019.

AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Chief Nursing Officer and CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership Robyn Begley in an op-ed published in The Hill newspaper. 

Inpatient and outpatient prospective payment system hospitals, inpatient psychiatric facilities and PPS-exempt cancer hospitals have until Aug. 30 to preview their data for the October update to Care Compare.

The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit challenging an Idaho law restricting abortion.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule that updates the inpatient prospective payment system rates by 2.6% in FY 2023 compared to FY 2022.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule for the long-term care hospital prospective payment system for fiscal year 2023, which increases aggregate Medicare payments by approximately $71 million relative to FY 2022

Covidien LLC (Medtronic) recently recalled more than 1 million Palindrome and Mahurkar Hemodialysis Catheters due to a defect that could cause serious injury or death.

A trial in a federal lawsuit  to stop UnitedHealth Group from acquiring Change Healthcare kicked off today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Hospitals provide over $110 billion a year in community benefits, almost nine times the value of their federal tax exemption, according to an AHA advertorial today in the Wall Street Journal highlighting the data and programs that “distinguish hospitals from any other sector in health care.” 

The AHA today joined 62 other national organizations in urging leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees to pass the bipartisan Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act before the end of this legislative session.

Remaining resilient as new variants of COVID-19 spread. Launching mobile health services to help ensure equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued its final rule for fiscal year 2023 for the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system.