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FCC Chair Expresses Support for Increasing Rural Telehealth Program
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government today held a hearing on the Federal Communications Commission’s and Federal Trade Commission’s budget request for fiscal year 2019.
CMS Releases Rural Health Strategy
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released the agency’s strategy to promote high-quality health care for all rural Americans, address the unique economics of providing rural health care, and bring a rural focus to CMS health care delivery and payment reforms.
House Hearing Examines Health Care Innovation and Technology
The House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on innovative practices and technology in health care.
House Panel Approves AHA-supported Opioid Bills as Part of Marathon Markup
The bills would amend the Medicaid Institutions for Mental Disease exclusion; cover IMD substance use disorder treatment for pregnant women up to 12 months after delivery; and provide grants to study alternative emergency pain management protocols, and develop programs to ensure care coordination and treatment for patients who have experienced overdoses.
FCC Chair Discusses Rural Telehealth Program at Budget Hearing
AHA this week urged the agency to reverse the FY 2017 cuts and permanently adjust the program’s funding cap to prevent similar cuts in the future.
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018
On Feb. 9, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, a massive budget bill containing a number of priorities important to hospitals and health systems.
AHA Telehealth Research
Research and data regarding the use and impact of telehealth in hospitals and health systems.
Statement on Health Care Competition Report
Tom Nickels
Executive Vice President
American Hospital Association
December 3, 2018
Nation State Cyber Threats Targeting Intellectual Property
All organizations must remain vigilant and ensure the proper cybersecurity procedures and controls are in place and practiced. While the stolen information may not retrievable, steps can be taken to mitigate the Mabna threat and other nation-state-sponsored cyber threats to academic medical centers, hospitals and health systems. This will help safeguard medical research and, most importantly, protect patients.