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AHA to CMS: COVID-19 Issues Affecting Clinicians and Organizations In Value-Based Payment Models
AHA joined physician and other groups urging CMS to take steps to ensure COVID-19 does not derail the Alternative Payment Model and value movement. Specifically, the groups urged CMS to “allow flexibility with existing deadlines and requirements and take steps to ensure clinicians are not inappropriately penalized for the extreme costs of handling the pandemic so that they can continue to focus their energy on patient care.
House and Senate Letters on COVID-19 Issues Affecting Clinicians and Organizations
AHA and other groups urged House and Senate leaders to “preclude the financial impact or shared loss repayment for all accountable care organizations and other value-based program participants based o
AHA's Hospitals Against Violence initiative launches resources on public health approaches to gun violence
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Hospitals and health systems respond to the injuries caused by firearms every day.
Workforce and Workplace Violence
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Hospitals and health systems are committed to continually making their communities and workplaces safer. Key to that is preventing violence within hospitals, ensuring the safety of staff and patients.
Through the Hospitals Against Violence initiative, AHA is highlighting successful programs and practices including preparedness drills, de-escalation training and a host of other initiatives that vary but meet the needs of their communities and their colleagues.
Hospitals Against Violence News
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The Hospitals Against Violence Initiative (HAV) is sharing examples and best practices with the field, with a particular emphasis on youth violence prevention, workplace violence prevention and com
Hospitals Against Violence (HAV)
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Violence is a growing public health issue so in the fall of 2016, the AHA's Hospital Against Violence (HAV) initiative was created. HAV supports AHA members and the health care field as they work to combat workplace and community violence by providing educational offerings, tools, resources; identifying national partnerships or coalitions; and supporting data and information collection research.
New COVID-19 ICD-10-CM code coming earlier
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will implement the new specific ICD-10-CM code for COVID-19, U07.1, April 1 rather than Oct. 1 as originally planned, the agency said.
OCR eases HIPAA telehealth enforcement for COVID-19 emergency
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights will immediately exercise its enforcement discretion and waive potential penalties for HIPAA violations against health care providers that serve patients through everyday communications technologies during the COVID-19 nationwide public health emergency, the agency announced.