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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the calendar year 2021 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center final rule.
Tom Nickels, AHA executive vice president for government relations and public policy, will retire from the association next April after a long and exceptional career in the association and political world, AHA announced.
Claire Zangerle, R.N., chief nurse executive at Allegheny Health Network, today joined AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., to discuss how hospitals can support their workforce as they move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.
AHA’s The Value Initiative is providing new resources to support hospitals’ and health systems’ efforts to adopt hospital-at-home care for patients who need acute-level care but are considered stable enough to be safely monitored from their homes.
The FDA this week revised and reissued its August emergency use authorization for COVID-19 convalescent plasma to treat hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The revised EUA adds the Mount Sinai COVID-19 ELISA IgG Antibody Test as an acceptable test for qualifying high and low titer COVID-19…
AHA speaks with two companies using the HealthEquip app to connect individuals and organizations with personal protective equipment to hospitals that need it through AHA’s 100 Million Mask Challenge.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the calendar year 2021 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center final rule.
The AHA launched a new periodic report to convey to congressional staff hospitals’ and health systems’ desperate need for a new COVID-19 relief package.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced shorter quarantine options based on local circumstances and resources, for people exposed to the COVID-19 virus.
Reps. Bradley Schneider, D-Ill., and David McKinley, R-W.Va., introduced the Medicare Sequester COVID Moratorium Act, AHA-supported legislation that would extend the moratorium on the Medicare sequester cuts through the COVID-19 pandemic.