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Congress avoided a government shutdown by passing a narrowed down spending bill on Dec. 20. Healthcare programs like Medicare telehealth and hospital at home have been extended through March 31, 2025.

Vice President JD Vance has played a notable role in alleviating the concerns of skeptical Republicans regarding Trump's most controversial nominees. Both Sens. Cassidy and Young have cited their conversations with Vance in recent days regarding RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard.

RFK Jr. has been confirmed as the Secretary of HHS, in a 52-48 vote on Thursday. Republican Senator Mitch McConnell was the only Republican who voted against him. fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/sen…

As a healthcare journalist that covers the ambient AI space closely, this head-to-head review by Cleveland Clinic was fascinating. Read to learn why Cleveland Clinic chose to deploy Ambience as its AI scribe. fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machine…

Steve Posnack has been named acting assistant secretary of technology policy at HHS, where he will lead efforts to improve medical record interoperability and transparency in AI. fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/ste…

House passes C.R. with a six month extension for Medicare telehealth flexibilities and the acute hospital care at home program. The C.R. does not include a doc pay fix, which Republican congressional leaders committed to doing under budget reconciliation. fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/hou…

The Senate has averted a government shutdown. fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/sch…

BREAKING: DEA has postponed two telehealth prescribing rules that were supposed to go into effect today until Dec. 31. The first would expand access to buprenorphine via telehealth, and the second would benefit veterans. fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/dea…

Now is the time for employers to demand better choice, quality, and affordability in health and care. Glen Tullman tells Emma Beavins about Transcarent's merger with Accolade and why, together, they are the One Place for Health and Care. #OnePlaceforHealth

Internet connectivity, staff and funding are just some of the constraints rural clinics face in trying to implement #ArtificialIntelligence. Emma Beavins details North Country Healthcare's efforts to deploy AI and the tech and funding hurdles it faces bit.ly/4jyJoM3

The MAHA Report cites studies that don’t exist. New w/ Emily Kennard: notus.org/health-science…

I spent a long time combing through CMS and ASTP's RFI on data access and interoperability. 📓Read my story here: fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/cms…

SCOOP: CMS is announcing five new health tech initiatives. Read it here first FierceHealthcare fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/cm…

MHH Executive Director Krista Drobac joined FierceHealthcare Emma Beavins to discuss efforts to advance SNF-at-home programs, generate stronger evidence for emerging care models and secure an extension of hospital-at-home policies fiercehealthcare.com/digital-health…

Breaking: The National Institutes of Health is releasing an AI request for information on AI strategic plan for the agency, NIH principal deputy director Matthew Memoli announced at a CHAI convening this morning. Comments are due July 15.

Breaking: Alignmt AI, Pacific AI, Signal 1, lensai and Ferrum will provide AI governance support for health systems as assurance service providers for the Coalition for Health AI, CHAI CEO Brian Anderson just announced at a member convening at Stanford Medicine.