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President Trump Friday issued a proclamation requiring most individuals seeking to enter the United States via an immigrant visa to have approved health insurance coverage within 30 days of entry or “the financial resources to pay for reasonably foreseeable medical costs.”

An estimated 27% of adults under age 65, or 53.8 million, had a preexisting health condition in 2018, according to a study released Friday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

ECRI Institute today identified surgical stapler misuse as the leading health technology safety concern.

The U.S. has retained its measles elimination status for another year, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday.

In a letter to the editor responding to a recent editorial in Modern Healthcare, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack says hospitals are working to supply information on consumers’ expected out-of-pocket costs.

Hospitals and health systems are leading transformative efforts to provide better care at lower costs for patients and communities.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday discussed several potential changes to restructure the Part D benefit.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its resources for health care providers on vaping-associated lung injury to include a poster for clinical settings.

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved a new pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for certain adults and adolescents who do not have HIV but are at risk for infection from sex.

Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.15% in September to a seasonally adjusted 5,267,000 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

AHA’s Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, and Priya Bathija, vice president of The Value Initiative, today addressed the 2019 Management Institute at Ohio State University’s Division of Health Services Management and Policy.

Rather than subjecting the nation to yet another polarizing debate on health care, there’s a better way.  

President Trump today issued an executive order calling for policies “to protect and improve the Medicare program by enhancing its fiscal sustainability through alternative payment methodologies that link payment to value, increase choice, and lower regulatory burdens imposed upon providers.”

The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a field hearing in Chicago on the public health impact of gun violence, the role of research and prevention approaches.

The hepatitis C infection rate among women giving birth rose 400% between 2000 and 2015 to 4.1 per 1,000 deliveries, according to a study of hospital discharge data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The AHA yesterday co-hosted a first-of-its-kind regional cybersecurity workshop with the North Carolina Healthcare Association and South Carolina Hospital Association.

AHA yesterday urged the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to release a “more granular assessment of the hospital-level impacts” of its potential changes to the Indirect Medical Education program.

The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday awarded $20.5 million to develop vaccine candidates for Marburg virus and Sudan ebolavirus, which are in the same family of viruses as the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

About 78% of patients at federally operated Indian Health Service hospitals and health centers reported having health coverage in fiscal year 2018, up from 64% in FY 2013, according to a report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office.

The Food and Drug Administration today recommended medical device manufacturers, health care providers and patients take certain actions to reduce the risk that a remote attacker could exploit a set of cybersecurity vulnerabilities to control a medical device or prevent it from functioning.