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The latest stories from AHA Today.

The Senate today voted 71-23 to pass legislation (H.R. 1865) funding the Department of Health and Human Services and other non-Defense agencies for fiscal year 2020.
The AHA participated today in a White House summit on transforming mental health treatment to combat homelessness, violence and substance abuse.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today selected 10 states to receive funding under the Maternal Opioid Misuse Model to help coordinate and integrate health care and other services for pregnant and postpartum Medicaid enrollees with opioid use disorders beginning in 2021.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today updated its Medicare and Medicaid drug spending dashboards with 2018 data.
Combining low-tech and high-tech solutions has the greatest potential to help hospitals and health systems reduce cost, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience.
The opioid stewardship collaborative has extended its application deadline to Dec. 31.
Maryjane Wurth, AHA executive vice president and chief operating officer, highlights some of the top innovations in health care in 2019. 
The Food and Drug Administration today released a proposed rule that would allow states and other non-federal government entities to establish programs to import certain FDA-approved prescription drug and biological products from Canada.
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has taken “the first steps toward much needed reform” of the federal anti-kickback statute and civil monetary penalty rules regarding beneficiary inducements.
The National Labor Relations Board today reestablished the right of an employer to restrict employee use of its email system if it does so on a nondiscriminatory basis.