The resolution represents the second largest payment to resolve a HIPAA investigation in OCR history. It also includes a robust corrective action plan that calls for, among other things, two years of monitoring.

The White House has provided no clear explanation of where the nearly $7 billion needed to provide the coupons would come from.

The Trump Administration’s main aim is widening consumer access to lower prices.

So many parents have held children back from visiting clinicians’ offices during the COVID crisis that CMS is issuing an urgent call to action: Please hold them back no more.

The American Medical Association is strongly urging California Governor Gavin Newsom to veto a bill that would allow nurse practitioners (NPs) to practice without physician supervision.

Early this month CMS agreed to reimburse hospitals for using the first AI software to qualify for Medicare’s NTAP mechanism. Healthcare AI watchers have been unpacking the intricacies of the development ever since.

The work of Regina Barzilay, PhD, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, has focused on breast imaging, the development of new antibiotics and much more. 

The authors did emphasize that they were not ruling on the overall “clinical efficacy” of hydroxychloroquine with this research.