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NATIONAL AHA recommends congressional action to improve rural access to care AmSurg to buy Envision’s ASCs ASC operator Envision to file for bankruptcy Black communities endured wave of excess deaths in past 2 decades, studies find Congress urged to make certain Medicare telehealth access permanent FTC orders records from Zinc Health, Ascent Health as... READ MORE

NATIONAL 4 Healthcare Design And Construction Trends To Watch AHA urges court to preserve ACA preventive services requirement pending appeal AI may pose ‘existential threat,’ physicians warn in BMJ Biden’s nursing home staff mandates expected soon CareFirst, Noom program aims to ‘retrain’ the brain of members with obesity, prediabetes CDC head to depart Cyberattacks... READ MORE

NATIONAL 6 health systems using GPT and AI tools 100,000 nurses left industry during the pandemic, report finds AHA backs bill to delay Medicaid DSH cuts by 2 years AHA launches info hub for healthcare quality leaders AHA opposes MedPAC recommendations to Congress on site-neutral, Part B drug, wage index policies AHA ramps up... READ MORE

NATIONAL 94% of Organizations Experienced a Cyberattack in 2022 AHA blog: Strengthening crisis management in rural health care Biden signs bill ending Covid-19 national emergency Cancer drug shortages are creating dire circumstances for some patients CMS Releases FY24 IPPS Proposed Rule, Seeks to Boost Rates by 2.8% CMS issues FY 2024 proposed rule for... READ MORE

NATIONAL AHA, AHCA warn CMS against unfunded nursing home staffing mandates AHA to Congress: Funding rural hospitals is critical for access AHA-supported bill to aid small rural hospitals reintroduced in Senate Biden won’t veto Republican-led bill ending COVID emergency CVS-branded hospitals? What’s next for company after Signify acquisition Is CMS pushing procedures away from... READ MORE

NATIONAL 42 Hospitals Sue HHS for ‘Tens of Millions’ of Dollars in Delayed Medicare DSH Payments A hospital fight is renewed — over hospitals Amazon underestimated complexity of healthcare: Report Between a rock and a hard place: Interest rate hikes alarm some hospital CFOs CEO of Moderna grilled by lawmakers about plants to quadruple... READ MORE

NATIONAL AMA pressures federal government to fix prior authorization problem plaguing radiology AHA pushes back on new 340B alliance Biden’s $6.8T budget: 15 healthcare takeaways CMS posts guidance for drug negotiation program Emergency medicine sees tough Match Week Hospitals’ labor costs increased 258% over the last three years ‘Indentured servitude’: Nurses hit with hefty... READ MORE

NATIONAL Cleveland Clinic, Ascension, Kaiser among 42 health systems chosen for $50M innovation project FTC tells Amazon, One Medical: Be careful how you use patient data Hospital organizations urge Congress to prevent Medicaid DSH cuts One Medical CEO rebuts Amazon data privacy concerns Rural hospital crisis: Momentum builds in Congress for bipartisan legislation Social... READ MORE

NATIONAL 14 rural senators push CMS to extend low-wage hospitals’ payment bump in FY2024 American Hospital Association voices support for telehealth expansion bill Behavioral health market to hit $262B by 2029 Biden administration moves to establish ‘guardrails’ for telehealth prescriptions CMS Officials Confirm End of PHE Nursing Home Waivers, Barring Congressional Action CMS updates... READ MORE

NATIONAL Addressing Staff Burnout In Healthcare Design Amazon completes $3.9B acquisition of One Medical CMS accepting applications for extended bundled payment model CMS to test new payment models for lowering prescription drug prices Data breaches continue to plague health care industry FTC’s enforcement action against GoodRx ‘a wakeup call’ for digital health FTC says... READ MORE