The Department of Health and Human Services should provide greater flexibility around health care staffing, provider resource allocation and accessibility to care, the AHA said today in a letter to the agency.

The letter outlines actions the Centers for Medicare & Services should take, including suspending several requirements; expanding the physician supervision requirement waiver; finalizing certain proposals from the Medicare physician fee schedule rule; delaying implementation of some price transparency rule provisions; and removing administrative and financial barriers to coverage for COVID-19.

Additionally, the letter urges HHS to coordinate with relevant agencies to provide necessary staffing relief for hard-hit hospitals; end drug manufacturer actions that pull critical resources from 340B hospitals; direct the Health Resources and Services Administration and other relevant agencies to encourage and use cross-training opportunities for health care workers; and coordinate an approach to support child care and other expenses to assist front-line health care workers.

Related News Articles

Headline
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration June 30 released a proposed rule to remove what remains of its emergency temporary standard for occupational…
Headline
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 27 announced the rollout of a 6-year technology-enabled prior authorization program pilot. Through…
Headline
Boston Medical Center’s Jeff Schneider, M.D., associate chief medical officer, designated institutional official and chair of the Graduate Medical Education…
Headline
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa June 18 vacated components of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ minimum nurse…
Blog
Public
Recent data from Press Ganey, reflecting input from over 1.4 million health care employees, reveals that after an initial post-pandemic rebound, employee…
Headline
The AHA and other national health care groups sent a letter to members of the House and Senate appropriations committees, urging them to provide $778 million…