The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services May 13 announced 29 health care organizations have pledged early participation in its electronic prior authorization initiative.
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A majority of physicians say the prior authorization process continues to negatively impact patient outcomes and employee productivity, according to a survey released May 13 by the American Medical Association.
The AHA wrapped up its inaugural Healthier Together Conference in Dallas May 14 with a plenary session on how the application of artificial intelligence-driven tools and data insights is advancing community health.
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The Washington Post has published a letter to the editor by AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responding to a May 4 op-ed accusing nonprofit hospitals of not fully meeting their community benefit requirements.
A blog by Noah Isserman, AHA director of health insurance and coverage policy, explains why Anthem’s nonparticipating provider policy limits patients’ access to care and overreaches its enforcement. The blog also raises questions about Anthem’s motivation behind the policy and whether it is a pretext to cut hospital payments.
The AHA today urged Eli Lilly to abandon its 340B Drug Pricing Program claims-data policy and work with the AHA to develop a functional third-party clearinghouse.
Join the AHA June 5 to recognize the Hospitals Against Violence initiative’s #HAVhope National Day of Awareness. The date marks 10 years of dedication to challenging violence in and around hospitals and health systems.
In a video, Matthew Ramsey, lead singer of the country band Old Dominion, explains why it is as meaningful for the band to play their music in support of hospital staff and caregivers as it is for patients. It is the latest installment of the AHA’s collaboration with Musicians On Call for National Hospital Week, which involves messages of support from singers and songwriters to hospital and health system workers and leaders nationwide.
Attendees at the AHA Healthier Together Conference in Dallas participated in pre-conference workshops, breakout sessions, table conversations, networking opportunities and community immersion experiences.
More than 600 people gathered May 12 in Dallas for the American Hospital Association’s inaugural Healthier Together Conference.
The AHA will host a webinar May 21 at 1 p.m. ET on key proposed changes to the fiscal year 2027 inpatient prospective payment system from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living has launched the first phase of its Health at Home Challenge, a competition to support community care networks that have partnered with health care providers supporting dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission approved recommendations it will issue to Congress in its June report on oversight and increased transparency of artificial intelligence usage for prior authorization.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a Health Alert Network Health Advisory May 8 notifying clinicians and health departments of the potential for imported cases of hantavirus disease, but said the risk of broad spread to the U.S. is currently extremely unlikely.
The AHA May 11 announced five winners of the 2026 Dick Davidson NOVA Award for their efforts in improving community health.
In honor of National Hospital Week, the AHA is again teaming up with Musicians On Call to send messages of support from singers and songwriters to hospital and health system workers and leaders around the country.
Elinore Kaufman, M.D., medical director of the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program, and Michele Volpe, chief operating officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, share how hospital-based violence intervention programs are helping patients heal physically, emotionally and socially after traumatic injury.
The AHA joins the health care field “to elevate a conversation” about behavioral health.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall correction for certain Boston Scientific ACCOLADE pacemakers and cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers after identifying a software-related battery issue that could cause affected devices to enter Safety Mode and limit pacing functionality