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Banner | Aetna Aligns Incentives to Drive Innovation
Banner Health and Aetna formed a provider-partnered value-based care health plan in 2016 to drive innovation, improve outcomes, reduce costs and enhance patient experience. Results from the partnership show improvement in all areas of the value equation.
Civica Rx Aims to Disrupt Generic Insulin Market Pricing by 2024
Pending federal approval, Civica Rx, the nonprofit consortium of U.S. hospitals, plans to manufacture and distribute several generic insulins, continuing its mission to alleviate chronic shortages of inpatient drugs and reduce drug prices.
CMS launches collaborative to reduce low-risk cesarean deliveries in Medicaid
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a learning collaborative and webinar series to help state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program agencies improve maternal and infant health by reducing cesarean deliveries for low-risk pregnancies.
Jury unanimously sides with Sutter Health in antitrust case
In a civil class action lawsuit alleging Sutter Health and certain affiliates violated federal antitrust law in their arrangements with health plans, a federal jury unanimously ruled in favor of the Sacramento, Calif.-based integrated health care network.
FDA extends shelf life for refrigerated J&J COVID-19 vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration recently authorized extending from six to nine months the shelf life for refrigerated Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine stored at 2-8 degrees Celsius (about 36-46 degrees Fahrenheit), based on data submitted by the company.
Reminder: March 31 deadline to report on period 2 provider relief payments
Health care providers who received Provider Relief Fund payments exceeding $10,000 total between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2020, must report to the Health Resources and Services Administration by March 31 on how they used those funds or face enforcement actions such as repayment or exclusion from receiving or retaining future PRF payments.
AI in Health Care: Leading through Change
To help you understand how AI is meeting today’s challenges and shaping the health care field’s work, the American Hospital Association and Microsoft have teamed up to offer a unique free course, “AI in Health Care: Leading Through Change.”
Workforce Advocacy
The AHA works to advocate for resources and policies, at an organizational or governmental level, that support a robust and healthy workforce. The AHA mobilizes members, state associations and other stakeholders around these issues so that the labor-intensive health field is prepared to handle our nation’s health care needs.
To Measure or Not to Measure: Overcoming Benchmarking Anxiety
With the biennial DEI benchmark survey now available through March 15, read AHA’s Leon Caldwell’s blog addressing the hesitancy related to taking the survey, as well as strategies to manage said anxieties. For questions related to your participation in the survey, please contact AHA’s survey support team at surveysupport@aha.org.
Senate Passes Omnibus Spending Package with Health Provisions
The Senate last night passed a $1.5 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that would fund the federal government through the end of the current fiscal year.