Public
American Hospital Association content that is available to the public and all website users.
We expect that today’s decision will have practical impacts on hospitals and health systems, including on health care provided across state lines, EMTALA obligations, maternal health care, the clinician-patient relationship, medical education and access to care for individuals regardless of…
The American Hospital Association (AHA) writes in support of the Protecting and Transforming Cyber Health Care (PATCH) Act (S.3983). AHA and its members are strongly committed to preparing for and preventing cyber-attacks.
This week, Hacking Healthcare begins by examining new telehealth guidance from HHS that looks to address how HIPAA-covered entities can continue to provide certain telehealth services while remaining compliant with the HIPAA privacy and security requirements.
Health-ISAC is distributing the following threat bulletin regarding the Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) (AA22-174A) released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the United States Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) on June 23, 2022.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) urges Congress to call on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to make changes to the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2023 in order to ensure that Medicare payments for acute care…
This Cybersecurity Information Sheet from the National Security Agency(NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (NZ NCSC), and the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK) provides details on using PowerShell®…
Like many hospitals across the country, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Laramie County, Wyoming, was seeing the effects of the nationwide opioid crisis – and had to change its approach after the COVID-19 pandemic made the situation worse.
OSF HealthCare, based in Peoria, Illinois, launched OSF Innovation to “embrace change and take on the largest health care challenges.” The team assessed what was needed to improve health outcomes and safety, increase access to care and make care more affordable.
June 17, 2022
The Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Room 445-G
Washington, DC 20201
AHA's submitted the following comments on the fiscal year (FY) 2023 LTCH prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule to CMS.