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More than 600 people gathered May 12 in Dallas for the American Hospital Association’s inaugural Healthier Together Conference.
The AHA will host a webinar May 21 at 1 p.m. ET on key proposed changes to the fiscal year 2027 inpatient prospective payment system from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living has launched the first phase of its Health at Home Challenge, a competition to support community care networks that have partnered with health care providers supporting dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid…
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission approved recommendations it will issue to Congress in its June report on oversight and increased transparency of artificial intelligence usage for prior authorization.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a Health Alert Network Health Advisory May 8 notifying clinicians and health departments of the potential for imported cases of hantavirus disease, but said the risk of broad spread to the U.S. is currently extremely unlikely.
The AHA May 11 announced five winners of the 2026 Dick Davidson NOVA Award for their efforts in improving community health.
In honor of National Hospital Week, the AHA is again teaming up with Musicians On Call to send messages of support from singers and songwriters to hospital and health system workers and leaders around the country.
Elinore Kaufman, M.D., medical director of the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program, and Michele Volpe, chief operating officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, share how hospital-based violence intervention programs are helping patients heal physically, emotionally and socially…
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall correction for certain Boston Scientific ACCOLADE pacemakers and cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers after identifying a software-related battery issue that could cause affected devices to enter Safety Mode and limit pacing…
The measles outbreak in Utah that began in June 2025 has grown to 638 cases as of May 5, according to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services.