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Rebates reduced the growth in Medicare Part D spending for brand-name drugs between 2011 and 2015, but spending for brand-name drugs with rebates still grew by $2 billion or over the five-year period
The AHA and five other hospital groups today filed a friend-of-the court brief urging the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington to prevent the Department of Homeland Security’s public charge rule from taking effect Oct. 15.
The Drug Enforcement Administration this week proposed reducing aggregate production quotas for five opioid controlled substances in 2020.
NASEM will hold a public workshop Sept. 19 on population health improvement models.
The AHA this week sponsored two sessions at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 2019 Annual Legislative Conference.
The Association for the Healthcare Environment, an AHA professional membership group, recently presented its 2019 awards for excellence in caring for the health care environment.
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw its proposal to rescind a 2015 rule that requires states to develop and submit access monitoring review plans for certain Medicaid services.
HRSA today awarded states, territories and nonprofit organizations $351 million to provide voluntary home visiting services to pregnant women and parents with young children through its Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.
A new report from the AHA Center for Health Innovation and EY examines how digital health technologies are shifting the care location to anywhere, anytime and the care model to preventive, personalized and participatory.
The AHA has made a donation to the American Red Cross to help the Bahamas recover from Hurricane Dorian.