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AAHAM Government Relations Quarterly Town Hall Discussions
The AAHAM Government Relations Committee will be holding quarterly calls with Chapter Presidents, Chapter Government Relations Chairs and Members who are interested in becoming active in AAHAM’s legislative healthcare reform initiatives. What happens in Washington usually starts back home in your states. These calls will generate discussions on what is happening in Washington and will enable intel to be shared on what is happening across the country at the state level. These sessions will be focused on healthcare issues that are taking place. These calls will also serve as an opportunity to use this information as a grassroots blueprint to utilize in your own chapter.

The next call is tentatively scheduled for scheduled for Thursday, April 27, 2023, at 4:30 PM EST.  The meeting information will be sent the week before the session.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

HHS COVID-19 Update, 7/15/2020

Addressing Disparate Impact of COVID-19 on Minorities: Secretary Azar and Surgeon General Adams spoke to the importance and the work that our Department is doing to address health care disparities in “How the Trump Administration is Fighting COVID-19 in Communities of Color,” published in the Dallas Morning News. The op-ed focuses on the actions the Administration is taking to address the health care disparities both prior to and as a result of the pandemic.

“Telemedicine is here to stay” says Verma:
Many of you are highly supportive of the various ways in which HHS has made telehealth more available during COVID-19. Today Administrator Verma had an article published in Health Affairs which outlines data on what CMS is seeing in this area, including the tremendous uptick in seniors using telehealth. Some nuggets you might find interesting:

• Before the public health emergency, approximately 13,000 beneficiaries in fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare received telemedicine in a week.
• In the last week of April, nearly 1.7 million beneficiaries received telehealth services.
• Across all age groups, 25-34 percent of beneficiaries have received a telemedicine service.
• Encouragingly, there was no significant difference by race or ethnicity among beneficiaries who received telemedicine services.


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