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Hundreds of hospital and health system leaders urged senators and representatives to support key priorities, including additional COVID-19 relief, during Congress’ lame-duck session.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a 2018 proposed rule implementing policy changes recommended by state Medicaid directors and others to streamline managed care regulations for the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program.
The Medicare Part A deductible for inpatient hospital services will increase by $76 in calendar year 2021, to $1,484, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
AHA will provide live coverage and analysis of the Nov. 10 U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in the latest challenge of the Affordable Care Act.
The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the first serology test to identify individuals with neutralizing antibodies from recent or prior infection with the virus that causes COVID-19.
In a study of 106,543 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 between March and July, 9% were readmitted to the same hospital within two months of discharge, the Centers Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Pfizer Inc. announced that BNT162b2, its mRNA-based vaccine candidate, is more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19, based on early data that has yet to be peer-reviewed.
“America’s hospitals and health systems congratulate President-elect Biden and look forward to working with him and his incoming Administration to make progress on the important issues facing the health care field, and the patients and communities we serve,” AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack said…
The Department of Health and Human Services should fully reinstate its June COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund reporting requirements, AHA said again in a letter to the agency. On Oct. 22, the department partially restored the requirements, but not the ability of hospitals to calculate lost revenue on a…
Job growth continued in October, but at a slower pace than this summer, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The health care field added 58,300 jobs, increasing to a seasonally adjusted 15.9 million.