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Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services Norris Cochran yesterday declared a public health emergency in Texas due to the winter storm.
The AHA today launched its new People Matter, Words Matter poster series to help combat behavioral health stigma in health care settings by adopting respectful, patient-centered language.
The AHA today responded to a new RAND report examining policy options to reduce hospital prices paid by private health plans.
Long-term acute care hospitals have played a critical role during the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to a new report by ATI Advisory.
The AHA today hosted a call for hospital and health system leaders featuring Michael Bell, M.D., deputy director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion in CDC's National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases. Bell provided an update on the latest information on the issue and…
In its fiscal year 2019 inpatient prospective payment system final rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services updated federal guidelines to comply with the statutory requirement that “each hospital operating within the United States” make its standard charges available on an annual…
The AHA, several hospital associations (Greater New York, New York State, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) and four hospital systems today took the first steps to bring a federal court challenge to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ two-midnight inpatient admissions criteria and related…