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Seventeen organizations, including the AHA, today urged Congress to resist any attempts from the pharmaceutical industry to undo during the lame duck session provisions included in the Bipartisan Budget Act to make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors.

President Trump has declared a major disaster in counties affected by the California wildfires, making federal funding available to help individuals and organizations recover, the FEMA announced today.

Outpatient opioid prescriptions for children have steadily declined since 2012, driven by fewer prescriptions for hydrocodone, according to a study reported online by JAMA Pediatrics.

A health system consortium recently received $9 million from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Moonshot initiative to develop, implement and evaluate an app to help patients report and better manage their cancer treatment symptoms.

The Camp Fire seriously damaged part of Adventist Health Feather River hospital in Paradise, Calif., including some inpatient units and multiple hospital outbuildings, the hospital reports.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated its alternative payment model participation status tool for the 2018 Quality Payment Program, which identifies eligible clinicians who qualify as advanced APM participants based on Medicare Part B claims data through June.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will discuss its updated price transparency guidelines for hospitals during a Nov. 13 Open Door Forum.

The Department of Health and Human Services today updated its physical activity guidelines for Americans, the first since the guidelines were released in 2008.

We are surrounded by a sea of data: Health information is doubling every three years. By 2020, it’s estimated it will double every 73 days.

The Department of Health and Human Services is considering new episode-based payment models, including mandatory and voluntary models.

The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission yesterday urged the Department of Health and Human Services to pause disenrollments related to work requirements in Arkansas’ Medicaid program.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for a rapid, single-use test to detect Ebola virus.

Mothers and infants enrolled in the Strong Start birth centers model had $2,010 lower costs on average, 25 percent lower preterm birth rates and better birth outcomes than other comparable women enrolled in Medicaid.

A Montana ballot initiative that would have provided funding to continue Medicaid coverage for low-income adults beyond 2019 failed by a narrow margin Tuesday, with 47 percent of voters supporting the measure.

Now that Election 2018 is in the books, what do the results mean for hospitals and health systems?

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule that would streamline Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program managed care regulations. 

Los Robles Regional Medical Center treated 11 people injured during last night’s mass shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Ninety-three percent of all clinicians eligible for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System who participated in the 2017 Quality Payment Program will receive a positive payment adjustment in 2019.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to roll out its revised claim-review demonstration for Medicare fee-for-service home health services beginning Dec. 10 in Illinois.

Voters in Palo Alto and Livermore, Calif., Tuesday rejected union-backed municipal ballot measures that would have imposed an “acceptable payment amount” on the compensation hospitals and other medical providers can receive from insurers and certain other payers for the care provided to patients.