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AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital inpatient prospective payment system proposed policy changes and fiscal year 2021 rates.
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ long-term care hospital prospective payment system proposed policy changes and fiscal year 2021 rates.
AHA has tracked the stories of several rural community hospitals as part of our coverage of COVID-19. Those stories and their podcasts may be found on the AHA website. As part of this series we share how rural hospitals have found new ways of delivering care to patients under COVID-19. Today, we…
AHA letter to Representatives Dutch Ruppersberger and Adam Kinzinger expressing support of H.R. 5855, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act.
AHA, AMA letter to CMS regarding the implementation of the appropriate use criteria (AUC) for advanced diagnostic imaging services mandated under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA).
AdventHealth Central Florida Division, Orlando, Fla The recent surge of COVID-19 cases in Central Florida affects the residents in seven Florida counties: Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Polk, Volusia, Flagler and Lake.
This edition of Hacking Healthcare begins by providing a brief overview of how a major European law enforcement operation, made possible by cracked encryption, is likely to further fuel the long simmering encryption debate within the United States, and wraps up by exploring the FCC’s decision…
In this conversation, Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of the AHA’s Physician Alliance and interim executive lead for the AHA’s Institute for Diversity an Health Equity, talks with two health system chief diversity officers about their efforts to learn more about the patients they are serving…
The information technology vendor, F5, disclosed a significant vulnerability in their BIG-IP suite of tools which, when exploited, allows for remote code execution ultimately leading to complete compromise of the host and the potential for further compromise of the network which it sits on.
Anticipating questions from nonprofit hospitals and health systems about the considerations involved in restructuring, including bankruptcy, as a result of the ongoing devastating financial impact of COVID-19,