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The House Ways and Means Committee today started its budget reconciliation markup of the Build Back Better Act, which will consider a number of health care provisions, including workforce issues; extending the expanded Affordable Care Act Marketplace premium tax credits from this year’s COVID-19 legislation; and expanded Medicare benefits for dental, vision and hearing.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Sept. 14 at 1 p.m. ET will host a webinar focused on its information blocking regulation.

CMS by Nov. 1 will begin reprocessing claims for outpatient clinic visit services provided at excepted off-campus provider-based departments.

According to an analysis released by the AHA looking at tax-exempt hospitals, non-profit hospitals provided $105 billion in community benefits in 2018.

Two separate efforts are underway to provide the public with a combination vaccine that would deliver simultaneous protections against COVID-19 and influenza.

President Biden today will announce six new mitigation steps for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services outlines the Biden Administration’s plans to address high drug prices. The report recommends the pursuit of legislation that would enable price negotiation in Medicare Parts B and D, with those negotiated prices also available to the federal marketplace, commercial plans and employers who want to participate; Medicare Part D reform, including a cap on beneficiary out-of-pocket spending; and legislation that would slow price increases over time on existing drugs and speed entry of biosimilars and generics to the marketplace while increasing their prescribing by clinicians.   

Hospitals and health systems employed nearly 3,200 more people in August, as U.S. jobs overall increased by 235,000, according to preliminary data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A report released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is shining a spotlight on challenges encountered by hospitals related to their public health reporting.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sept. 9 from 2-3 p.m. ET will host a Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity webinar highlighting updates on Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations for the 2021-2022 influenza vaccination season.

The Biden Administration announced an additional $452 million in federal funding through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to support 13 states’ efforts to improve access to health insurance through 1332 waivers.

The AHA is recruiting people who work in health care settings to submit short videos, shot on their mobile devices, which encourage and support their unvaccinated colleagues to get the shot.

The AHA’s American Organization for Nursing Leadership released the findings of the third survey of nurse leaders in its COVID Insight Study.

America’s hospitals and health systems support patient protections in the No Surprises Act, but the law and associated regulations offer only a partial cure, writes Ashley Thompson, AHA’s senior vice president for public policy analysis and development.

The American Medical Association published eight new Current Procedural Terminology codes for providers administering COVID-19 vaccines.

Joy Lewis, AHA’s senior vice president of health equity strategies and executive director of the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, is a guest on InOn Health’s podcast, during which she discusses the role that hospitals and health systems play in striving for health equity, as well as opportunities to eliminate health disparities and AHA’s vision to support its membership in these efforts. 

The AHA is accepting applications for its 2022 Dick Davidson NOVA Award through Nov. 19.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services collected complete COVID-19 data from the vast majority of nursing homes in 2020, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General.

According to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research, hospitalization for COVID-19 for children and adolescents increased four-fold in August in states with low levels of vaccination, compared with states with high levels.

The Department of Health and Human Services is making temporary changes to its distribution policies for monoclonal antibody therapies, with an eye on maintaining sufficient supply to meet current and future demand.