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Average annual premiums for employer-based family health coverage reached $28,303 in 2026, up 5% from 2025, according to the latest KFF annual survey on employer health benefits. Workers this year have contributed $7,471 toward family coverage, on average. For those with an annual deductible for…
A joint advisory issued Oct. 20 by U.S. and international agencies warns of recent activity by the SafePay Ransomware group. The group has been active since 2024, attacking critical infrastructure organizations, including healthcare, across North America and around the world. The agencies said…
The AHA will host a webinar Oct. 27 at noon ET on how integrated healthcare organizations are incorporating behavioral health into broader population health and value-based care strategies. Participants will hear about the economic and operational challenges facing payer-provider organizations and…
Two critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Hypertext Preprocessor, or PHP, a widely-used open-source scripted language for web development, its creators announced Oct. 21.
The AHA submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Oct. 21 on its preliminary calendar year 2027 Medicare clinical laboratory fee schedule rates.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Oct. 21 announced that Amazon, Axon Enterprise, Inc., Google, Meta and Oracle Corp. are in support of its prior authorization pledge announced last year.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Maine should deny motions by several drug companies and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America to intervene in the lawsuit challenging the administration’s revised 340B rebate model, the AHA and its co-plaintiffs argued in a filing submitted…
The Department of Health and Human Services Oct. 20 launched a national plan focused on kidney care.
John Riggi, AHA national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, and Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division, break down Operation Riptide, a massive 60-day crackdown that put the FBI’s new cyber strategy into action.
The AHA Oct. 20 expressed support for the Addressing Boarding and Crowding in the Emergency Department (ABC-ED) Act (S. 1974), bipartisan legislation designed to improve data collection on hospital capacity and ED boarding.