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Thirteen states yesterday filed a lawsuit challenging a Department of Homeland Security final rule limiting the ability of legal immigrants to adjust or extend their immigration status or gain full citizenship based on their prospective receipt of public benefits.

Beginning with open enrollment for plan year 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will require all health insurance exchanges to display its star rating for each qualified health plan.

Currently available public hospital quality rating systems frequently offer conflicting results, which may mislead stakeholders relying on the ratings to identify top-performing hospitals.

The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems today named as its next president and CEO Becky Hultberg, who currently serves as president and CEO of the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the voiding of a rule that included Medicare and private insurance payments when calculating the hospital-specific limit on Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments.

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force yesterday released for comment a draft recommendation that primary care clinicians screen all adults for illicit drug use, including nonmedical prescription drug use.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released the first in a new series of free online training courses to help health care organizations prevent and control infections.

The AHA today urged the Department of Health and Human Services not to finalize certain proposed revisions to a 2016 final rule implementing the Affordable Care Act’s nondiscrimination protections for patients.

Patients receiving either of two investigational treatments for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had a greater chance of survival than those receiving two other treatments as part of the clinical trial.

A California law that limits the size of bills from out-of-network physicians for care delivered in hospitals has changed the negotiation dynamics between hospital-based physicians and payers.

John O’Brien will soon depart his position as senior advisor for drug pricing reform.

The Department of Homeland Security today released a final rule limiting the ability of legal immigrants to adjust or extend their immigration status or gain full citizenship based on their prospective receipt of public benefits.

The AHA today proposed additional actions that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could take immediately “to reduce the regulatory burden on hospitals, health systems and the patients that we serve.”

Almost 10.6 million people had health coverage through the federally facilitated or state-based exchanges in February, according to a report released today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will review and answer questions about the outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center proposed rule for calendar year 2020 during an Aug. 14 call.

The AHA is accepting applications from hospitals to participate in an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality cardiac rehabilitation initiative to improve cardiac patient outcomes.

Often quietly and out of the public eye, the vital work of advancing health in America happens on many fronts.

The Health Resources and Services Administration yesterday awarded 80 rural consortia $1 million each to help prevent, treat and support recovery for patients with opioid and other substance use disorders in underserved areas.

The Department of Health and Human Services offers a resource to help health care providers and others prepare for and respond to mass violence events such as the recent shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week approved an 1115 Medicaid waiver for New York to create a streamlined model of care for children with complex health care needs.