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The Department of Health and Human Services today hosted the first daylong HHS Black Health Summit in Washington, D.C., where department officials highlighted federal, state and local efforts to eliminate health disparities and HHS resources to help advance health equity.

Nonprofit hospitals and health systems and other eligible entities can apply until April 14 for up to $2.5 million from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to support evidence-based interventions to prevent, diagnose and treat substance use disorders in primary care; and until April 21 for up to $2.5 million to support evidence-based interventions to accelerate health equity in health care delivery systems, among other funding opportunities

What can be done to attract, recruit and train more talented young Black men to the practice of medicine?

The AHA today urged the Federal Trade Commission to withdraw its proposed rule that would ban contractual terms that prohibit workers from pursuing certain employment after their contract with an employer ends.  

The latest from the 2023 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference.

The Food and Drug Administration last week reported on its fiscal year 2022 activities to support medical countermeasures, as required by the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday released a bulletin reiterating certain federal requirements with respect to health care-related taxes.

HIPAA-covered entities reported 609 breaches of unsecured protected health information in calendar year 2021, 7% fewer than in 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights reported in its latest annual report on the issue.

On Feb. 28, the National Library of Medicine will discontinue its Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders, which provides web-based and standalone applications to help emergency responders address hazardous material incidents

Acute care hospitals, physician group practices and Medicare accountable care organizations may apply through May 31 to participate in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model for two years beginning in January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.

​​​​​​​The nation’s largest retail, payer and tech disruptors once again invested billions of dollars in health care in 2022, continuing to build out their visions to transform the field.

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued a report offering recommendations to address the opioid crisis and the role of analgesic oversight in preventing addiction, overdoses and deaths.

Completing the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 monovalent vaccine primary series protects children aged 3-5 and 3-4, respectively, against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection for at least four months, according to a study in those ages released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In a report this week, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General identified 15 drug codes that in third-quarter 2022 met the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ criteria for substituting a lower Medicare price for certain Part B drugs.

A new blog from the AHA highlights a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services report that found that 70% of hospitals are in compliance with both parts of the Hospital Price Transparency Rule,

America’s hospitals and health systems are places of healing, hope, comfort and caring. Today, they also face many challenges that jeopardize their ability to always be there ready to care.

Medicare should continue to pay average sales price plus 6% for most separately payable Part B drugs, but cap ASP inflation, AHA told the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission in comments submitted today. 

In a blog published in Health Affairs, leaders from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released updated findings on hospital compliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule.

In a statement submitted to the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee for a hearing today on the nation’s health care workforce shortages and potential solutions, AHA said “long-building structural changes within the health care workforce, combined with the profound toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, have left hospitals and health systems facing a national staffing emergency.”  

Cris Daskevich, CEO and senior vice president, CHRISTUS Health, The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, will serve as 2023 chair of the AHA Committee on Maternal and Child Health.