"Not a day goes by where we don't hear from hospitals and health systems across the country that are concerned about shortages of PPE for their heroic front line caregivers," Alicia Mitchell, the group's senior vice president of communications, said in a statement to NPR.
We have had some discussions with CMS about a potential resolution to the intractable delays in payment caused by the ALJ work stoppage, wrote Alicia Mitchell, senior vice president of communications at the American Hospital Association, in an email.