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Michelle Hood, AHA’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, previews the association’s Sept. 14-16 virtual conference, Navigating a New Reality: Health Care Leaders Confront the Future, sponsored by the AHA Center for Health Innovation and the Society for Health Care Strategy and Market Development to help health care leaders successfully move forward through COVID-19’s recovery, rebuilding and reimagining care delivery.

One in four U.S. counties, or 818,  were COVID-19 hotspots for at least one day in the period between March 8 and July 15, representing 80% of the U.S. population, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A test kit made by Thermo Fisher Scientific to detect COVID-19 from respiratory specimens may produce false positive results, the Food and Drug Administration warned.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance for determining when health care personnel with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 may return to work.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it will resume routine inspections of all Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers that were previously suspended as part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services updated its guidance related to the 20% inpatient prospective payment system diagnosis-related group rate add-on for patients diagnosed with COVID-19.

HHS delayed today’s expected release of additional details regarding data elements for providers who accepted Provider Relief Fund program funds.

FDA Saturday issued an emergency use authorization to Yale School of Public Health for a new test to detect SARS-CoV-2 in saliva.

The CDC recently released guidance for clinicians and laboratory professionals on rapid antigen testing for SARS-CoV-2.

McKesson Corporation will serve as a central distributor of future COVID-19 vaccines and related supplies, the departments of Health and Human Services and Defense announced.

The AHA today issued a Regulatory Advisory summarizing the CMS' inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system final rule for fiscal year 2021.

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority this week withdrew its request for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to approve a Healthy Adult Opportunity demonstration waiver for its new low-income adult Medicaid population.

Incidence-based mortality for the most common U.S. lung cancer fell about 6% per year between 2013 and 2016 as treatment advances accelerated previous declines, according to a study reported this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a 2019 court order requiring the federal government to reimburse insurers for unpaid cost-sharing reductions provided through the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges in 2017 and 2018.

The AHA urged the Departments of the Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services to not finalize a proposed rule that would allow certain grandfathered health plans to increase patient cost-sharing beyond current limits without losing their grandfathered status.

The AHA today urged UnitedHealthcare to forgo a new coverage policy for laboratory tests that the association believes is burdensome and negatively impacts patients’ access to care.

The Food and Drug Administration will host a webinar Aug. 18 at 12 p.m. ET on its umbrella emergency use authorization for certain disposable, single use surgical masks.

The National Urban League released its annual State of Black America report, detailing the state of racial equality in America across economics, employment, education, health, housing, criminal justice and civic participation.

AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., hosts short conversations on a range of key issues with hospital and health system leaders from across the country.

Almost 80 free-standing children’s hospitals will receive $1.4 billion in relief funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act and the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, the Department of Health and Human Services said.