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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma today discussed the administration’s three primary goals for strengthening Medicare – empowering patients, innovating and aligning incentives – during an Alliance for Health Policy event for reporters and other stakeholders.

The AHA will present its 2018 Board of Trustees Award to author and futurist Ian Morrison July 26 at the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego.

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today hosted a hearing focused on the 340B drug savings program, including examining more than a dozen legislative proposals that would make changes to the program.

The Federal Communications Commission will seek to establish a new $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program to support telehealth for low-income Americans, especially those living in rural areas and veterans.

Eligible individuals and entities, including hospitals, can apply through Aug. 9 for funding to operate as “navigators” in states with a federally-facilitated health insurance exchange in plan year 2019.

The departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development should work with state and local governments and other concerned entities to increase the supply of permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals.

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday announced safety labeling changes for fluoroquinolone antibiotics to strengthen warnings about the risk of mental health side effects and serious blood sugar disturbances.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule that would eliminate 2014 regulatory text allowing states to reassign Medicaid payments to third parties on behalf of certain providers.

The Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs today voted to advance President Trump’s nomination of Robert Wilkie to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs permanently.

Three programs that expand the reach of palliative and end-of-life care will receive 2018 Circle of Life Awards July 27 at the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego.

Health care and public health professionals can register to attend a Sept. 19-20 workshop in Omaha, NE, on preparing for Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases, offered by the National Ebola Training and Education Center.

The AHA has extended to July 16 the deadline for clinical teams to apply to participate in its 12-month virtual High-Value Care Collaborative.

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced that $10.4 billion in risk adjustment transfers for benefit year 2017 are on hold until certain litigation over the risk adjustment methodology is resolved.

The 340B drug savings program must be reformed, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said today at a 340B conference in Washington, D.C.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow participants in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model to retroactively withdraw all or some episode initiators and clinical episodes from the model in March 2019, the agency announced Friday.

The National Center for Healthcare Leadership will present its 2018 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award to Nancy Howell Agee, president and CEO of Carilion Clinic and 2018 AHA chair.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued final guidance revising its recommendations for testing donated whole blood and blood components for Zika virus.

Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.21% in June to a seasonally adjusted 5,175,800 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

The nine-month program strategically aligns with AHA's Value Initiative to provide training in leadership and value-based strategies to tackle the key issues and disruptors affecting health care affordability and cost.