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Currents: AAHAM Government Affairs Newsletter (2/14/2022)

Posted by [email protected] on 02/16/2022 12:28 pm  /   AAHAM National

In The News

•   Most Hospitals Break Price Transparency Requirement Rules
•   Hospitals Seek Funds for Panic Buttons Amid Pandemic Violence
•   Biden Says Easing of Mask Rules by Governors Is ‘a Tough Call’
•   Hospital Executives Plead for More Money to Defray Covid Costs
•   Biden’s Global Vaccine Push Falters, Echoing U.S. Struggles

 

Legislative/Regulatory

•   Steady Medicaid Coverage Impeded by Sign-Up Woes, Income Changes
•   Biden Urges Congress to Pass His Plan to Lower Drug Prices
•   Medicare Expands Coverage of High-Tech Lung Cancer Screening
•   Biden’s FDA Chief Nomination Teed Up for Final Senate Vote
•   Vaccine for U.S. Kids Under 5 Delayed as FDA Stalls Review
•   Opioid Politics in Congress Casts Pall Over Bid to Cut Overdoses
•   HHS to Award Health Centers $55 Million for Virtual Care
•   Biden’s Thousands of Promised Health Care Jobs Poised to Vanish
•   Covid-19 Regulation Still on Agenda, OSHA Chief Doug Parker Says

 

Legal

•   Medicare Coverage Required for Off-Label Nausea Drug, Court Says

 

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