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 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.

Of 127 hospital executives involved in a successful merger or acquisition over the past five years, more cited “ability to survive” than any other reason for making the move.

University Hospitals Health System tested the pricing change in a bid to boost outcomes in its service area. 

A common tactic is sending off Medicaid-covered seniors with dementia following emergency “psychotic” episodes. When psychiatric wards and hospitals quickly discharge the patients, the nursing homes refuse to take them back in.

In real dollars, these payers’ combined savings would have nearly reached $20 billion just in 2018, the analysis shows.