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 The Affordable Care Act requires non-grandfathered health plans to cover women’s preventive services, including free birth control and contraceptive counseling, at no cost to individuals and covered dependents, the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury reminded group health plans in a letter yesterday.

U.S. hospitals and health systems continued to face difficult financial and operational headwinds in May.

AHA last week asked the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure hospitals quickly receive the funding to which they are entitled under last week’s Supreme Court decision in American Hospital Association v. Becerra.

In a letter submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for a hearing today, AHA called for greater congressional oversight to protect access to care for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries

 Medicare-enrolled physician group practices may apply through Sept. 30 to participate in a voluntary oncology care model beginning next July for five years.

The AHA in a letter today to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator expressed support for the agency’s proposed updates to Medicare enrollment and eligibility rules.

 AHA Friday voiced support for the Protecting and Transforming Cyber Health Care Act, legislation that would require medical device manufacturers to meet certain cybersecurity requirements when seeking approval for devices that are internet connected or include software

The Department of Homeland Security is advising law enforcement and others that domestic violent extremists are likely to exploit the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion to intensify violence against a wide range of targets, including both reproductive and family advocacy health care facilities.

The Food and Drug Administration today announced it has revoked the emergency use authorizations for the Simoa Semi-Quantitative SARS-CoV-2 IgG Antibody Test and Simoa SARS-CoV-2 N Protein Antigen Test.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Trafficking in Persons last week issued a request for information on forced labor in health care supply chains to inform implementation of the National Strategy for a Resilient Public Health Supply Chain and related efforts on forced labor.

On this episode, Wright L. Lassiter III, Chair, American Hospital Association, talks with Erin Fraher, associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and research associate professor in the Department of Surgery at UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, N.C. She also is director of the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center, one of five national health workforce research centers in the U.S.

An overview of an AHA-convened panel at Aspen Ideas: Health, part of the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Ideas Festival.

The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering and American Society for Health Care Risk Management has named their new executive director.

HHS approved Colorado's Section 1332 State Innovation Waiver amendment request to create the "Colorado Option.

To increase monkeypox testing capacity during the U.S. outbreak, the CDC began shipping orthopoxvirus tests to five commercial laboratory companies.

The CDC endorsed Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 6-17.

CMS released Frequently Asked Questions regarding No Surprises Act implementation.

Following today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a statement from AHA General Counsel.

The House today voted to pass bipartisan legislation to help reduce gun violence in communities.

Earlier this year we formed the AHA Board of Trustees’ Task Force on Workforce, a key part of our ongoing efforts to sound the alarm about this national emergency and take steps to address it. The task force has worked to identify ideas, policies and solutions to support our current workforce and assure that we have enough health care workers to meet the future needs of our nation.