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President Biden directed the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to consider new payment and delivery models to lower drug costs and promote access to innovative drug therapies for beneficiaries.
CMS will extend through 2025 the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model, which was set to expire this year.
FEMA released guidance outlining the process the agency will use to identify and reduce COVID-19 Public Assistance funding for any expense for which funding has already been received from another program or source.
AHA had urged the agency to renew the emergency to continue critical flexibilities.
The market for pharmacy benefit manager services is highly concentrated, with commercial insurers often sharing ownership in the PBM, according to the analysis.
The guide offers resources to help organizations build a community health worker program to strengthen their health care workforce.
AHA's Institute for Diversity and Health Equity held its latest Health Equity Innovation Summit, which explored regional challenges and solutions to accelerate health equity.
The panel also recommended screening children aged 12-18 for major depressive disorder, as it did in 2016.
Kimberly Wells, CEO of Pinewood Springs mental health and wellness hospital in Columbia, Tenn., shares how the HCA Healthcare facility is integrating physical and behavioral health care to improve patients’ lives.
With the start of flu season, AHA is providing a new batch of Halloween- and autumn-themed resources for hospitals’ and health systems’ use to encourage influenza and COVID-19 vaccination. The October United Against the Flu toolkit includes downloadable plug-and-play social media assets,…