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At its annual conference Aug. 6-9 in San Antonio, AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering will present 10 health care facilities with 2023 Sustainability Champion Awards for their strong leadership in becoming more sustainable and using saved resources to support patient care.
Kevin Barnett, senior investigator with the Public Health Institute and board member for Trinity Health, discusses how rural providers with finite resources can bridge the gap between clinical care and community population health, while also improving health equity.
In this AHA webinar replay for health care providers, experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and hospitals clarify what COVID-19 vaccines are available and share strategies to help promote vaccination, especially in children under age 5.
A May data breach involving MOVEit Transfer software on Medicare contractor Maximus Federal Services’ corporate network may have exposed an estimated 612,000 Medicare beneficiaries’ personally identifiable information and/or protected health information, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 28 advised clinicians in the Medicare Quality Payment Program who earned but did not receive an alternative payment model incentive payment in calendar year 2023 based on CY 2021 performance to update their billing information by Sept. 1 so…
In the wake of tornado damage last week to a large Pfizer sterile injectables plant in North Carolina, the Food and Drug Administration July 28 posted a list of products made at the facility that have less than three months of inventory in the supply chain.
CMS to begin enforcing ‘exact match’ service location policy for off-campus outpatient claims Aug. 1
Effective Aug. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has instructed Medicare Administrative Contractors to begin checking hospital and health system claims for outpatient services provided in off-campus provider-based departments to ensure that the address where the services were…
Health Services Research, the flagship publication of AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust and an official journal of AcademyHealth, invites researchers to submit through July 31 abstracts highlighting scientific contributions and real-world impacts emanating from learning health systems.
Suicide accounts for one in five postpartum deaths; one in five women experience a perinatal mental health condition; and over half of pregnant women with depression do not receive treatment, according to a new AHA infographic highlighting the grim statistics surrounding maternal mental health,…
The president should create a permanent federal body responsible for advancing racial, ethnic and tribal equity across the federal government, according to recommendations released July 27 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.