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Letter to CMS with comments on the agency’s interim final rule for a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for hospitals and other Medicare/Medicaid participants.
This week, Hacking Healthcare begins by reviewing how an AvosLocker ransomware attack bolsters our understanding of how ransomware gangs operate.
The AHA joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Medical Association in urging the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a district court decision that refused to allow a case involving the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005 to proceed in federal court and sent it…
This document summarizes UHC’s response to AHA’s letter on forthcoming changes to the insurer’s coverage criteria for emergency-level care.
This document summarizes a letter from AHA to UnitedHealthcare on forthcoming changes to the insurer’s coverage criteria for emergency-level care.
The American Hospital Association will run a new print ad in The Washington Post and The New York Times highlighting the urgent need for all eligible Americans to get vaccinated, get a booster shot and follow public health guidelines as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations increase rapidly across…
A joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to provide mitigation guidance on addressing vulnerabilities in Apache’s Log4j software library.
The Health-ISAC Threat Operations Center (TOC) continues to track ongoing developments regarding the weaponization and mitigation of CVE-2021-44228 in the logging library known as Log4j. 
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Dec. 17 issued a final rule with comment period related to certain policies for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS).