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Jim VandeHei, CEO of Axios; Marc Boom, M.D., AHA board chair and president and CEO of Houston Methodist; Anne Klibanski, M.D., president and CEO of Mass General Brigham; Jonathan Perlin, M.D., president and CEO of Joint Commission; and Ladd Wiley, senior vice president of global corporate affairs, public policy and advocacy for Epic, all participated in the panel discussion “AI in Health Care: Navigating Policy, Regulation, and the Road Ahead."

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, M.D., and CMS Deputy Administrator and Director o

AHA Board Immediate Past Chair Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO, Corewell Health, and Rob Allen, president and CEO, Intermountain Health, participated in a discussion moderated by Jim Skogsbergh, former chair of the AHA Board of Trustees, for a discussion about the opportunities and challenges facing health care leaders in today’s landscape.

President Trump April 18 signed an executive order to accelera

What does it take to turn a nursing shortage into a workforce pipeline?

The Health Resources and Services Administration should abandon its consideration of a 340B rebate model pilot program because “a rebate mechanism of any kind is flawed in both conception and desig

The Department of Justice April 20 published an interim final rule in the Federal Register to delay compliance dates for certain regulatory requirements related to web content and mobile app accessibility for individuals with disabilities.

The AHA and others April 17 filed an amicus brief requesting the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit grant en banc review of a panel decision that invalidated West Virginia’s law protecting 340B contract pharmacy arrangements.

The AHA announced April 17 that it will present its 2026 Federal Health Care Executive Award to Cmdr. Vince Deguzman, director for clinical support services at the U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Okinawa in Okinawa, Japan, and Elizabeth Adriano, M.D., director of the Naval Medical Center in San Diego.

The AHA and the Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare have released new ads; the AHA publishes new resources in advance of National Hospital Week, which is May 10-16.

Ten national health care provider organizations, including the AHA, released a joint statement April 16 in recognition of Workplace Violence Prevention Month.

There are now 602 cases in the Utah measles outbreak, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services reported April 14.

Two days from now, the AHA will welcome more than 1,000 health care leaders to our 2026 Annual Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C.

The AHA April 16 announced that it will present its 2026 Award of Honor to Carolyn Clancy, M.D., former director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and The John A. Hartford Foundation. Both recipients will be honored during a ceremony April 20 at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Americans across 43 states enrolled in health plans from the nation’s four largest commercial health insurers face potential disparities in finding in-network coverage for mental health care and substance use disorder treatment relative to physical health care, according to the Mental Health Parity Index released by the Kennedy Forum.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released an updated request for applications for the Long-term Enhanced ACO Design Model, or LEAD.

President Trump April 16 announced that Erica Schwartz, M.D., has been nominated for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. April 16 testified during two House hearings on the HHS fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, which requests $111.1 billion.

The Health Sector Coordinating Council’s Cybersecurity Working Group has released a guide on third-party artificial intelligence risk and AI supply chain transparency.

A Health Affairs report published April 6 examined how changes in patient cost-sharing liability can impact&nbsp