The states say they do not have enough time to enforce the rule, as CMS only issued an interim final rule this summer. The deadline for full compliance is Jan. 1.

The incident happened in 2019, when a third-party debt collector used by the diagnostics company had a hacker inside its network for over 8 months. In total, the incident exposed records from 27.5 million patients to hackers.

Independence Blue Cross, the largest medical insurance provider in the Philadelphia area, does not admit to wrongdoing. It was accused in a lawsuit backed by the U.S. Department of Justice of misrepresenting the severity of patient illnesses to juice risk-adjusted Medicare payments.

Analyzing more than 1,500 cases of patients who got sent from an acute-care hospital to an ostensibly more-capable facility, Harvard researchers have found 1 in 4 such transfers could—and probably should—have been avoided. 

The reason for the payouts is a bit fuzzy, but the White House said it has to do with user fees that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services charged to the states, which should have been passed on to enrollees as they sign up for insurance on HealthCare.gov

Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, was arrested in Ireland in 2023. As part of the cybercrime group linked to the deployment of Conti, Lytvynenko was found to have possessed data from 12 victims. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. 

The union claims the nurses were targeted for speaking out about a plan by the California-based healthcare company to consolidate obstetrics services.

Compared with surgical approaches such as TURP, PAE can offer an alternative treatment for appropriately selected patients, especially men who are older in age. 

Some parents may be unsure about giving their children these medications. However, it can be worth it to avoid a lifetime of high blood pressure and other potentially harmful health conditions.