In his latest monthly column for Talk Business & Politics, ACHI Health Policy Director Craig Wilson uses the occasion of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month to discuss the importance of getting screened for the disease, which is expected to kill about 560 Arkansans in 2022. Read More
Thirteen Arkansas hospitals face penalties of 1% reductions in Medicare payments in federal fiscal year 2022 for high rates of hospital-acquired conditions, up from 10 hospitals in 2021 and 2020. Thirty-four hospitals were not penalized and 40 were exempt. Read More
It’s been almost a year and half since we launched our podcast, Wonks at Work, to demystify complex healthcare topics (unwonk them, if you will). During the first 25 installments, ACHI Health Policy Director and host Craig Wilson has welcomed several guests from a variety of sectors to help you better understand how the system is working – or not working – for you. Read More
In this installment in our series explaining key terms and phrases used by public health officials in discussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, we look at the term “monoclonal antibodies.” Read More
ACHI's Dr. Joe Thompson discussed the COVID-19 pandemic, emergence of omicron subvariant, and what endemic phase of COVID-19 might look like. Read More
The City Health Dashboard, an online resource for viewing and comparing data from multiple sources on health and factors that affect health in hundreds of U.S. cities, is inviting cities with populations under 50,000 to compete for the opportunity to be added to the dashboard. Read More
A new federal law, the No Surprises Act, is intended to protect patients from surprise medical bills. In a guest column for Talk Business & Politics, ACHI Health Policy Director Craig Wilson discusses what surprise medical billing is and how the law aims to prevent it. Read More
In the latest installment of his column in the Healthcare Journal of Arkansas, ACHI President and CEO Dr. Joe Thompson discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened our nation’s previously existing mental health and opioid crises. Read More
Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP), Arkansas has the option to extend postpartum coverage under Medicaid from 60 days, the minimum required by federal law, to 12 months beginning on April 1, 2022. Read More
On Jan. 13, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard, pending further review before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Read More
