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The Food and Drug Administration today announced an investigational test to screen blood donations for Zika virus in areas with active mosquito-borne transmission of the virus. Once screening using the investigational test begins, blood establishments in Puerto Rico may resume collecting…
AHA staff today participated in a White House Convening on Rural Telehealth, which highlighted the essential role of telehealth in reaching high-need rural families and communities. Officials from the Obama administration, state and local government, academia and the practitioner community…
Almost 28% of uninsured U.S. residents under age 65 are eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, while 21% are eligible for premium tax credits through the Health Insurance Marketplaces, according to a new report by the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson…
America’s 65-and-over population is projected to nearly double by 2050 to 88 million, according to a report on global aging released this week by the National Institutes of Health. The global population of people aged 80 and older is expected to more than triple over the period, while…
At its annual meeting this week in Fort Worth, TX, the American Organization of Nurse Executives will present its inaugural Pamela Austin Thompson Early Careerist Award to Erik Martin, director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
The AHA and AMGA are offering a new fellowship to help member hospitals and health systems with employed physicians move to a more integrated system of care to manage population health and succeed in new physician payment models coming in 2019 under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization…
Twenty-six members of the House Ways and Means Committee today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to delay implementing a new Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, which was required by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. “Given that CMS has yet to issue a final…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule applying certain provisions of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 to Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicaid alternative benefit plans and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The MHPAEA…
The Department of Health and Human Services today issued a proposed rule that would double the number of patients a qualified physician may treat with buprenorphine. The controlled substance is one of three drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration for medication-assisted treatment of…
States, territories and certain other jurisdictions can apply for up to $1 million per year for five years to train first responders and other community sectors to use naloxone and other strategies to prevent prescription drug/opioid-related deaths in adults, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health…