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AHA’s chief nursing officer and chief physician executive encourage hospitals and health systems to ensure the questions asked on licensing, credentialing and other applications don’t perpetuate stigma or deter team members from seeking behavioral health services when needed.

The Centers for Medicare the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Sept. 18 finalized select provisions in its proposed rule to streamline Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollment.

Certain policy decisions and challenges in implementing the No Surprises Act have undermined the unbiased and timely process Congress intended and contributed to a higher-than-anticipated volume of disputed claims, AHA told the House Ways and Means Committee in a statement submitted for a hearing Sept. 19 on the law’s implementation.

The AHA and American Medical Association Sept. 17 urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to affirm a district court decision that invalidated a No Surprises Act final rule that favors insurers in the independent dispute resolution process and threatens serious harm to the law’s patient protection goals.  

The Food and Drug Administration will accept comments through Nov. 17 on draft guidance for labeling proposed biosimilar and interchangeable biosimilar products.

The Joint Commission in January will launch a voluntary certification program to help U.S. hospitals accelerate their sustainable practices and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The greatest resource in the health care field is our workforce.

AHA encourages hospitals and health systems to apply by Sept. 29 for its 2024 Quest for Quality Prize, which recognizes significant progress toward achieving the National Academy of Medicine’s six health care quality aims: safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient-centered care.

The AHA’s American Organization for Nursing Leadership affiliate has elected as its 2024 president-elect Ena Williams, senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut.

The president of NorthShore Highland Park Hospital discusses her team’s coordinated response to a mass shooting during the 2022 July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Ill., and how the hospital supported the community and health care staff.

In this National Suicide Prevention month and as National Physician Suicide Awareness Day approaches, Julie Goldstein Grumet, director of the Zero Suicide Institute, explains how a team approach can reduce suicide risks in the health care workforce.

About six in 10 physicians and residents and seven in 10 medical students say they experience feelings of burnout often, according to the latest survey by the Physicians Foundation.

Hospitals are places of healing, health and hope. They strive to create safe spaces for the patients and communities they serve and the dedicated team members who work there each and every day.

The American Society for Health Care Risk Management named Tracy Melina of Nuvance Health 2023 Risk Management Professional of the Year.

A new white paper from the AHA details how integrating physical and behavioral health services can reduce the total cost of care, improve outcomes and improve workforce satisfaction.

AHA today participated in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Fall Immunization Kick-off Event for partner organizations, which focused on vaccinating Americans against COVID-19, flu and RSV to prevent against severe outcomes such as hospitalization and death.

This October through December under the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare will reduce the beneficiary coinsurance amount for 34 Part B prescription drugs between $1 and $618 per average dose, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced recently.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on legislative proposals to prevent and respond to generic drug shortages.

The Senate, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) released an updated version of the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act, which the committee plans to markup Sept. 21.

AHA today voiced support for a provision in the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378) that would suspend for two years the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital reductions scheduled to go into effect on Oct. 1, but urged House leaders to reject another provision that would permanently implement reductions to Medicare payments for drug administration services in off-campus hospital outpatient departments.