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AHA and its American Organization for Nursing Leadership yesterday voiced strong support (LINK) for the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act, bipartisan legislation that would recapture 40,000 authorized but unused visas to help address the nation’s shortage of nurses and physicians. Sens.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday released a number of new waivers related to COVID-19.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) this week hosted webinars for health care providers on the agency’s COVID-19 Uninsured Program Portal. During the webinars, representatives from HRSA and United Health Group, the portal administrator, reviewed the process for submitting claims…
AHA, together with five other organizations, urges Attorney General Barr to announce that the Department of Justice will exercise prosecutorial discretion and decline to pursue or prosecute alleged violations of the Medicare and Medicaid Anti-Kickback Statute and the Physician Self-Referral…
Rural Hospital Interventions for COVID-19
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Statement on additional regulatory waivers from CMS from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack.
Advances in mobile health (mHealth), respectively IoTHealth, are likely to reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare. Although telehealth systems may improve the quality of healthcare, the digitalization of health records, the collection, evaluation and provisioning of patient data, and…
Recently, AHA published a compendium of case examples demonstrating the struggles and successes of rural hospitals battling COVID-19 in their communities. For this podcast, we honor our hospital heroes and focus on surviving the surge from the perspective of Tim Putnam, CEO, Margaret Mary…
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) today, April 29, and tomorrow, April 30, will host webinars for health care providers on the agency’s COVID-19 Uninsured Program Portal. Health care providers are eligible for reimbursement from the federal government for COVID-19 testing,…