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Just in time for March Madness, AHA is offering for hospitals and health systems a social media toolkit that uses the wildly popular NCAA basketball tournament season as a foundation for messages encouraging patients to stay up-to-date with their COVID-19 vaccinations.
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday amended its emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s updated COVID-19 vaccine to allow children aged 6 months through 4 to receive a single booster dose at least two months after completing three Pfizer monovalent vaccine doses.
This April through June under the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare will reduce the coinsurance amount for 27 Part B prescription drugs from 20% to somewhere between 10% and 19.9%, depending on the drug, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.
AHA Chief Physician Executive Chris DeRienzo, M.D., this morning joined a panel of health care and technology leaders for an Amazon Web Services-led discussion on how technology and innovation can offer solutions to help train, retain and deploy the nation’s health care workforce.
Hospitals are encouraged by March 31 to apply for up to five medical education full‐time equivalent resident cap slots made available by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services through Section 126 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.
As Congress considers reauthorizing the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, AHA yesterday urged lawmakers to fund the Hospital Preparedness Program at a significantly increased level, strengthen the Strategic National Stockpile, require the federal government collaborate with stakeholders to…
AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to quickly finalize a proposed rule that would require Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and federally-facilitated Marketplace plans to streamline their prior authorization processes, but urged the agency to adequately enforce and monitor…
AHA's Institute for Diversity and Health Equity on March 6 held its latest Health Equity Innovation Summit for AHA’s Region 7 (with members from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana). The event brought together C-suite hospital leaders, community members and patient advocates to explore regional…
The Food and Drug Administration will end 22 COVID-19-related policies when the public health emergency ends May 11 and allow 22 to continue for 180 days, including temporary policies for outsourcing facilities compounding certain drugs for hospitalized patients and non-standard personal protective…
In comments submitted Saturday, AHA generally supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ initial guidance implementing inflation rebates for certain single source drugs and biosimilar biological products covered by Medicare Part B, but recommends changes to prevent incentivizing…