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Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees yesterday asked six health insurers and two physician staffing companies to provide certain information by Jan. 9 “to understand better why surprise billing occurs, the policies and practices that help protect individuals from surprise billing, and the current incentives behind the negotiations between providers and insurers."

The AHA today commented on the Food and Drug Administration’s draft guidance for industry and FDA staff on clinical decision support software as part of the agency’s efforts to implement Section 3060(a) of the 21st Century Cures Act.

More than 8.3 million people selected a 2020 health plan through HealthCare.gov Nov. 1 to Dec. 17, including more than 4.4 million last week.

The Government Accountability Office this week released a report on the potential benefits and challenges of expanding the Medicare Graduate Medical Education Program to include graduate training for nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Sutter Health today announced terms of a settlement agreement to resolve an antitrust lawsuit with the United Food and Commercial Workers & Employers Benefit Trust (UEBT) on behalf of a class of California Self-Funded Payers and the California Attorney General.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends two frameworks that medical professional societies, health care organizations, and state, national and local agencies could use to develop clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opioids to manage acute pain.

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved the first FDA-approved vaccine to prevent Ebola in adults with Zaire ebolavirus, which killed more than 10,000 people during a 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa.

The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering has launched two new programs for 2020.

On behalf of the AHA Board of Trustees and our team, thank you for everything you do to advance health in America.

The Senate today voted 71-23 to pass legislation (H.R. 1865) funding the Department of Health and Human Services and other non-Defense agencies for fiscal year 2020.

The AHA participated today in a White House summit on transforming mental health treatment to combat homelessness, violence and substance abuse.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today selected 10 states to receive funding under the Maternal Opioid Misuse Model to help coordinate and integrate health care and other services for pregnant and postpartum Medicaid enrollees with opioid use disorders beginning in 2021.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today updated its Medicare and Medicaid drug spending dashboards with 2018 data.

Combining low-tech and high-tech solutions has the greatest potential to help hospitals and health systems reduce cost, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience.

The opioid stewardship collaborative has extended its application deadline to Dec. 31.

Maryjane Wurth, AHA executive vice president and chief operating officer, highlights some of the top innovations in health care in 2019. 

The Food and Drug Administration today released a proposed rule that would allow states and other non-federal government entities to establish programs to import certain FDA-approved prescription drug and biological products from Canada.

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has taken “the first steps toward much needed reform” of the federal anti-kickback statute and civil monetary penalty rules regarding beneficiary inducements.

The National Labor Relations Board today reestablished the right of an employer to restrict employee use of its email system if it does so on a nondiscriminatory basis.

Less than 1% of the net electronic health record incentive payments Medicare paid to acute-care hospitals between Jan. 1, 2013 and Sept. 30, 2017 did not meet federal requirements.