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The Food and Drug Administration recently updated its health care provider fact sheet on bebtelovimab to note that the monoclonal antibody is not expected to neutralize omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1.
AHA today voiced support for the Building America’s Health Care Workforce Act (H.R.7744), legislation that would extend for two years after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency certain flexibilities relating to training and competency requirements for nurse aides in skilled nursing…
Teaching hospitals have until Nov. 18 to ask Medicare to review their per resident amounts or resident caps for certain cost reports, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced this month.
AHA’s Stress MeterTM resource can help health care workers and others identify their current stress level and access helpful resources in just a few clicks.
AHA is accepting applications through Nov. 16 for its 2023 Dick Davidson NOVA Award, which will recognize up to five member hospitals and health systems for their collaborative efforts to create healthier communities through health care, economic or social initiatives.   
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange advisory group yesterday urged Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to work closely with standards development organizations and other health care partners to identify and pilot test appropriate No Surprises Act standards, harmonize them…
Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best-selling author and National Humanities Medal recipient, will give the opening keynote address at AHA’s 2023 Accelerating Health Equity Conference, which will be held May 16-18 in Minneapolis.
The Ebola outbreak in Uganda has not spread to the United States or other countries to date, the CDC said in an update to clinicians.
Independent, physician office and hospital outreach laboratories that meet the definition of an applicable laboratory under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule must report certain private payer data between Jan. 1 through March 31, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said in a…
AHA has partnered with Musicians On Call, a nonprofit that brings live and recorded music to patients, to bring hospitalized veterans in all Veterans Affairs facilities the healing power of music this Veterans Day, Nov. 11, and all month long starting Monday. The virtual Concert For Veterans…