The American Hospital Association, the Texas Hospital Association and nonprofit health systems Texas Health Resource and the United Regional Health Care System are suing the federal government over a rule prohibiting the use of online tracking technologies on providers’ public web pages.
More and more patients are accessing their medical records via patient portals or apps on their phones and tablets, and the frequency with which they access these records is increasing, according to a new report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
Deliver what healthcare workers want and address the burden of disease, says Dr. Ricardo Leite, CEO of I-DAIR.
Alisa Chestler, chair of the data protection, privacy and cybersecurity team at Baker Donelson, questions whether $20 million in annual funding from a new Behavioral Health Information Technology Coordination bill is enough to move the needle.
Massachusetts-based medical management company Doctors’ Management Services will pay the Department of Health and Human Service and the Office of Civil Rights $100,000 in a settlement over a ransomware attack.
Home health agencies get a 0.8% pay increase for 2024 rather than a proposed 2.2% decrease, under the Home Health Prospective Payment System Final Rule released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday. CMS estimates that Medicare payments to home health agencies will increase by about $140 million in 2024, compared to […]
CVS Health logged strong earnings and revenue performance during the third quarter, hitting $2.3 billion in profit, the company said this week. Total revenues increased to $89.8 billion, for the quarter and $264 billion for the year, up 10.6% compared to the prior year. Generated cash flow from operations reached $16.1 billion over that time.
Research on asthma shows African Americans are six times more likely to have an ER visit and three times more likely to die, says Marci Bennafield, clinical instructor in health informatics for Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions.
Missouri- and New Jersey-based drugmaker Nostrum Laboratories and its founder and CEO, Dr. Nirmal Mulye, have agreed to pay a minimum of $3,825,000 – and up to $50 million if certain financial contingencies are met – to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying Medicaid rebates due for Nostrum’s drug […]
The American Medical Association and others are calling on Congress to stop the advanced Alternative Payment Model bonus payment cut that is scheduled to expire at the end of the year for most physicians.