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One hundred thirty-eight members of the House of Representatives yesterday expressed concern with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposal to expand certain site-neutral payment policies to grandfathered off-campus hospital provider-based departments in calendar year 2019.

October is cybersecurity month (in reality, every month is cybersecurity month) but this is a good time to review the overall landscape.

The AHA and other hospital groups today opposed the Department of Health and Human Services motion to stay in the groups’ lawsuit challenging the excessive delay in the effective date for the 340B price transparency rule.  

The AHA and National Urban League today released a compendium of resources to help hospitals and health systems implement successful and sustainable community health worker programs.

HHS yesterday highlighted a number of its efforts in fiscal year 2018 that it says have reduced the burden of regulations by $12.5 billion.

Nationwide, 2,734 Medicare Advantage plans will be available for individual enrollment in 2019 – an increase of 417 plans since 2018, according to a report this week by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

HHS today announced $293 million in awards to expand the primary health care workforce for clinicians and students through the National Health Service Corps and Nurse Corps programs.

The World Health Organization said today that the latest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo does not constitute a global health emergency at this time, saying it does not pose a serious threat of spreading.

Given the high adoption rate of certified electronic health records, the EHR Reporting Program should “emphasize reporting criteria that indicate how certified EHRs support the safe, efficient and

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday announced that it has confirmed 62 cases of acute flaccid myelitis – a polio-like illness that mostly affects children and can cause paralysis.

The Department of Health and Human Services today hosted a national meeting on neonatal abstinence syndrome focused on how to use health technology and data to better understand outcomes and improve long-term care. 

The Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance that provides recommendations to the medical device industry on cybersecurity considerations for device design, labeling and documentation that the FDA recommends be included in premarket submissions for medical devices with cybersecurity risk.

The National Academy of Medicine this week announced the election of 75 regular members and 10 international members during its annual meeting.

The AHA appreciates certain steps the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is taking to improve the stability and flexibility of the Medicare Shared Savings Program; however, the associatio

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Officer for Civil Rights yesterday announced that Anthem has agreed to pay $16 million and take corrective action to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act after a series of cyberattacks led to the largest U.S. health data breach in history and exposed the electronic protected health information of nearly 79 million people. 

The Florida Hospital Association has established a fund to help hospital employees who experienced significant property loss or damage during Hurricane Michael.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has named Mary Mayhew as the agency’s deputy administrator and director of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

The AHA’s Association for the Health Care Environment has named two ne

Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: Lee Myles named interim CEO of Memorial Hospital in Maine; James Griffith selected COO of El Camino Hospital in California; Gary Foster named COO of PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Washington state; and Steven Kaster, M.D., selected chief medical officer of Menorah Medical Center in Kansas. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule aimed at increasing drug pr