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The American College of Emergency Physicians and Medical Association of Georgia this week filed a federal lawsuit seeking to compel Anthem's Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia to rescind a policy that retroactively denies coverage for emergency patients.

A new study involving clinicians using electronic health records to perform certain common tasks found that the design, development and implementation of these systems should be improved to make them easier to use by clinicians and safer for patients.

The House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee yesterday held a

The AHA today discussed the need to reduce the regulatory burden on providers to improve patient care during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Affairs hearing.  

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar today named Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Director Adam Boehler to also serve as his senior advisor for value-based transformation and innovation.

ECRI Institute plans to continue providing the National Guideline Clearinghouse to the health care community this fall.

Navicent Health of Macon, GA, will receive the 2018 AHA Equity of Care Award July 27 at the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego.

The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering presented its 2018 Crystal Eagle award to George Thomas, former director of plant and engineering at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, during its 55th Annual Conference and Technical Exhibition July 15-18 in Seattle.

AHA today urged the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to reconsider its decision to shut down the National Guidelines Clearinghouse.

The AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges and America’s Essential Hospitals today said they expect to “refile promptly in district court” their lawsuit challenging a nearly 30% Medicare payment reduction for many hospitals in the 340B drug savings program.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today held the second in a series of hearings on how to reduce health care costs, which focused on preventing unnecessary spending and improving value.

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today held a hearing examining challenges and solutions related to the issue of rural broadband.

Twenty-eight health care organizations, including the AHA, yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reconsider its decision to suspend $10.4 billion in risk adjustment transfers to insurers for 2017 until certain litigation is resolved.

The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative, with Catholic Health Initiatives and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Human Trafficking Initiative and Freedom Clinic, recently secured diagnostic codes that will allow health and medical professionals to identify victims of human trafficking they encounter when they seek health care.

Five hospital-led partnerships to improve community health will receive AHA NOVA Awards July 28 at the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego.

The AHA today submitted comments on the Department of Health and Human Services’ blueprint to lower drug prices and out-of-pocket costs.

John Riggi, AHA senior advisor for cybersecurity and risk, said hospitals and health systems take seriously the protection of highly-sensitive and valuable information.

The AHA Friday filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting hospitals’ efforts to remove from a municipal ballot in November a union-backed measure that would impose pricing caps on hospitals and other health care providers, calling the measure not just misguided health care policy but also legally flawed.

The Food and Drug Administration Friday approved the first drug intended to treat smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980 but could be used as a bioweapon.

The Members in Action series, part of AHA’s The Value Initiative, highlights how hospitals and health systems are implementing new value-based strategies to improve health care affordability, quality and outcomes.