AHRQ’s Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care has released a new suite of tools designed to make behavioral health integration more accessible, effective, and sustainable. These updated resources offer practical guidance, partnerships, and evidence-based strategies to help primary care teams strengthen whole-person care and better support patients’ mental health needs.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its AI Strategy, the next phase of the Department’s transformative initiative to make artificial intelligence available to the federal workforce, integrating it across internal operations, research, and public health.
A new collaboration among nine major U.S. health systems from the American Telemedicine Association Center of Digital Excellence shows that virtual care is largely substitutive, replacing office visits rather than adding new ones.
The new policies adopted on the final day of voting at the AMA Interim Meeting include advocating for funding to support school-based mental health, removing barriers to improve access to opioid use disorder medications, improving health care for veterans, and protecting health care professionals from ionizing radiation.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced significant action to make it faster and less costly to develop biosimilar medicines, which are lower-cost “generic” alternatives to biologic drugs that treat serious and chronic diseases. In a new draft guidance, the FDA proposes major updates to simplify biosimilarity studies and reduce unnecessary clinical testing.
Day 42 of the Telehealth Shutdown: ATA Action urges immediate passage of legislation to restore Medicare telehealth coverage and Acute Hospital Care at Home program.
The Patient Experience Grant Program reflects The Beryl Institute’s commitment to expanding the global dialogue on the human experience in healthcare and supporting data-driven, evidence-based practices that inform improvement efforts.
UC San Francisco announced a $100 million gift to its renowned Memory and Aging Center (MAC). It is the first gift to name a UCSF division, which will now be the Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center. The gift comes without restrictions and will broadly support the Fein MAC’s activities.
Each recipient has a product with significant potential to address a major national priority, such as meeting a large unmet medical need, reducing downstream health care utilization, addressing a public health crisis, boosting domestic manufacturing, or increasing medication affordability with Most Favored Nation pricing.
Beginning with the 2024 performance period/2026 MIPS payment year, the targeted review period closes 30 days following the release of MIPS payment adjustments (refer to 42 CFR 414.1385(a)(2)).
In their letter, the groups called on DHS to issue guidance clarifying that physicians, residents, and fellows are essential to maintaining a strong health care workforce and should be categorically exempt from the fee. The AMA is eager to collaborate with the administration to ensure that patients don’t lose access to care.
Nearly half of U.S. adults—122.4 million people—are living with high blood pressure (BP), a leading preventable risk factor for heart disease, stroke and premature death, according to the 2025 American Heart Association Statistical Update.
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