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The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on legislative proposals to prevent and respond to generic drug shortages.

The Senate, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) released an updated version of the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act, which the committee plans to markup Sept. 21.

AHA today voiced support for a provision in the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378) that would suspend for two years the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital reductions scheduled to go into effect on Oct. 1, but urged House leaders to reject another provision that would permanently implement reductions to Medicare payments for drug administration services in off-campus hospital outpatient departments. 

Christine Albert, chief experience officer for LCMC Health in New Orleans, will serve as president of the advisory board for AHA’s Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development professional membership group in 2024. David Grandy, vice president of innovation for Kaiser Permanente’s Garfield Innovation Group in Oakland, Calif., will serve as president-elect.

In this podcast during National Suicide Prevention Month, a behavioral health leader from Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health and participant in AHA’s Suicide Prevention Learning Collaborative, shares ideas and best practices to support health care worker well-being across the organization.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Office for Civil Rights have updated their tool to help health care providers (especially smaller organizations) identify and assess potential risks to electronic protected health information, as required by the HIPAA Security Rule.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) yesterday alerted the sector to a ransomware group that has claimed over 60 victims since March, demanding payments ranging from $200,000 to $4 million.

The AHA today urged the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice not to finalize the draft guidelines describing how the agencies review mergers and acquisitions to determine compliance with federal antitrust laws.

At its annual conference Sept. 11 in Chicago, the AHA’s Society for Health Care Strategy & Market Development professional membership group presented its 2023 Leadership Excellence Award to Christine Gallery, senior vice president of planning and chief strategy officer at Emerson Health in Massachusetts.

AHA is providing its latest social media toolkit to help hospitals encourage vaccination against COVID-19.