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CMS announces new details on plan to cover new Alzheimer’s drugs 

Medicare will cover new Alzheimer’s drugs that receive traditional approval from the Food and Drug Administration when a beneficiary is diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease dementia and has a physician participating in a registry with an appropriate clinical team and follow-up care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.

Hospitals and Health Systems Have Amazing and Inspiring Stories to Tell

Hospitals and health systems provide healing, compassion and care to all people who walk through their doors.
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Flawed Report Aims to Deflect Attention From Role Insurer PBMs Play in High Drug Costs

A new AHIP “report” suggests that hospitals are significantly marking up the costs of drugs to the detriment of patients. They make baseless claims that specialty pharmacies, many of which insurers conveniently own through their pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) affiliates, provide a lower-cost alternative for patients.

What a Recent Health Affairs Piece Gets Wrong about Hospital Finances and Charity Care

A recently published article in Health Affairs on hospital finances and financial assistance uses a flawed, debunked methodology to justify preconceived conclusions about how hospitals manage their finances.
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Creating a Support System for Black Women Leaders and CEOs

For Black women who are hospital and health system CEOs, it's been difficult to find and connect with others like themselves.

CMS webinar June 27 on IRF Review Choice Demonstration

The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services will host a June 27 webinar on its Review Choice Demonstration for Inpatient Rehabilitation Services, which will begin Aug. 21 in Alabama and expand to additional states at an undetermined date.

Members of Congress urge CMS to further streamline prior authorization

A bipartisan group of 233 representatives and 61 senators called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service to enhance its proposal to streamline prior authorization processes in Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and the federally-facilitated Marketplace to require real-time electronic decision-making for routinely approved services, responses for emergency procedures within 24 hours and additional transparency.

HHS reports 57% decline in hospital maternal death rates since 2008

Delivery-related maternal mortality in U.S. hospitals decreased for all racial and ethnic groups, age groups and modes of delivery during 2008 to 2021, likely due to national strategies to improve delivery-related hospital care, the Department of Health and Human Services reported.