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The Department of Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response highlights “best and promising” hospital cybersecurity practices in its latest TRACIE newsletter and webinar on the issue.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response will begin developing a Zika virus vaccine at its Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing in Baltimore, the agency announced yesterday.
Hospitals, critical access hospitals and eligible professionals who did not achieve meaningful use in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for the 2015 reporting period can apply through July 1 for a hardship exception from the 2017 payment adjustment. CAHs that have already…
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to expand its proposed definition of advanced alternative payment models for the physician quality payment program. “We urge CMS to expand its definition of financial risk to include the investment risk borne by providers…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released the proposed rule for the home health prospective payment system for calendar year 2017, which, after all policy changes, would reduce home health payments by 1.0% from 2016 payment levels. CMS proposes a 2.8% market-basket update…
House Republicans, led by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Friday released a broad outline of their proposed changes to corporate and individual tax laws. The proposal contains no direct commentary on issues such as municipal or hospital bonds, or the current-law tax-…
A federal district court in Texas today ordered the Department of Labor to halt all implementation of the “persuader” reporting rule on a nationwide basis. “Because the scope of the irreparable injury is national, and because the DOL’s New Rule is facially invalid, the…
The departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and Health and Human Services have issued technical guidance summarizing existing “best practices” to prevent and respond to ransomware incidents – when cyber actors use malicious software to deny access to systems or data and…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today alerted health care facilities to an emerging multidrug-resistant yeast associated with high mortality and at least two outbreaks in health care facilities in other countries. U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today awarded $26 million in grants through 2020 to five academic medical centers conducting research to prevent healthcare-associated and antibiotic-resistant infections as part of the agency’s Prevention Epicenters Program.