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The Senate today voted 71-23 to pass legislation (H.R. 1865) funding the Department of Health and Human Services and other non-Defense agencies for fiscal year 2020.

The AHA participated today in a White House summit on transforming mental health treatment to combat homelessness, violence and substance abuse.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today selected 10 states to receive funding under the Maternal Opioid Misuse Model to help coordinate and integrate health care and other services for pregnant and postpartum Medicaid enrollees with opioid use disorders beginning in 2021.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today updated its Medicare and Medicaid drug spending dashboards with 2018 data.

Combining low-tech and high-tech solutions has the greatest potential to help hospitals and health systems reduce cost, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience.

The opioid stewardship collaborative has extended its application deadline to Dec. 31.

Maryjane Wurth, AHA executive vice president and chief operating officer, highlights some of the top innovations in health care in 2019. 

The Food and Drug Administration today released a proposed rule that would allow states and other non-federal government entities to establish programs to import certain FDA-approved prescription drug and biological products from Canada.

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has taken “the first steps toward much needed reform” of the federal anti-kickback statute and civil monetary penalty rules regarding beneficiary inducements.

The National Labor Relations Board today reestablished the right of an employer to restrict employee use of its email system if it does so on a nondiscriminatory basis.

Less than 1% of the net electronic health record incentive payments Medicare paid to acute-care hospitals between Jan. 1, 2013 and Sept. 30, 2017 did not meet federal requirements.

The House today approved a $1.4 trillion spending package for fiscal year 2020.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Health Resources and Services Administration today announced proposed rules aimed at increasing organs available for transplant.

The Senate Judiciary Committee today held a hearing on “a whole-of-government approach” to tackling the opioid crisis.

The Food and Drug Administration Friday cleared for marketing in the U.S. the first fully disposable duodenoscope.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear yesterday repealed a requirement that some adult Medicaid beneficiaries work or engage in activities such as job training or volunteer work to remain eligible for coverage, effectively ending a legal challenge to the requirement in that state.

The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to extend for 60 days – until March 17 – the comment period for its Medicaid fiscal accountability proposed rule.  

The AHA today applauded “the new direction” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is taking to modify, modernize and clarify the physician self-referral law, also known as the Stark Law, to “provide space for the types of innovative arrangements among hospitals and physicians that can enhance care coordination, improve quality and reduce costs.” 

A federal judge today said hospitals must file claims next year to show the effects of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ calendar year 2020 final rule that reduces payments for hospital outpatient services provided in off-campus provider-based departments grandfathered under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. Judge Rosemary Collyer said today that her September ruling declaring the payment cuts unlawful was limited only to the 2019 final rule. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced that it is extending the deadline to enroll in health insurance on the exchange to accommodate consumers who attempted to enroll in health coverage during the final hours of open enrollment but who may have experienced issues or delays.