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AHA, others file lawsuit over drug companies’ refusing 340B discounts

The AHA, joined by four other national hospital groups and hospital pharmacists representing participants in the 340B drug pricing program, filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services over the department’s failure to enforce program requirements and halt drug company actions that undermine the program.

AHA comments on legislation to address surprise medical bills

AHA commented on the No Surprises Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation released Friday to address surprise medical bills.

New AHA podcast series on integrating physical and behavioral health to lower suicide risk

In this three-part series, Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas shares its most successful tools and approaches to help spot and reduce risk factors for suicide.

Baricitinib plus remdesivir shows promise in hospitalized patients

Combining the anti-inflammatory drug baricitinib with the antiviral drug remdesivir reduced the median recovery time for hospitalized COVID-19 patients from eight to seven days, according to clinical trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

CMS releases vaccine administration billing details

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently posted information on how hospitals and other health care providers should bill Medicare for administering COVID-19 vaccines.

HHS purchases 100 million additional doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine candidate

The Department of Health and Human Services Dec. 11 announced it would purchase from Moderna 100 million additional doses of its mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

AHA summary of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine EUA

Following the Food and Drug Administration’s Dec. 11 emergency use authorization of Pfizer, Inc.’s BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, AHA released a Special Bulletin with important details for hospitals and health systems.
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Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) Sector Alert

On December 13, 2020, FireEye and SolarWinds released security advisories detailing a highly-skilled and highly-targeted, manual supply chain attack on the SolarWinds Orion Platform network management system that leverages software updates to deploy a backdoor to victim organizations.
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Federal Appellate Court Decision Addressing Legality of Health Plan ED Review Policies and Compliance

To help hospitals and health systems understand what the federal appellate court’s “prudent layperson” standard decision means to them, AHA enlisted law firm Lash & Goldberg LLP to provide an in-depth analysis of the decision and its impact.

Strategic Sourcing in Purchased Services: Leading Practices for Centralizing Purchased Services Contracting and Implementing Savings

Are you winning the battle against rising purchased services costs and surviving financially in a post-COVID environment?