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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nov. 20 released an interim final rule implementing the Most Favored Nation (MFN) Model, a new payment model through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) that will cut Medicare Part B payments for certain drugs to the lowest…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Nov. 20 released two final rules that will modernize and make important changes to physician self-referral (Stark law) and federal Anti-kickback statute (AKS) regulations.
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated an increase in information collection and sharing among providers, patients, hospitals, vendors and other organizations. In turn, that has heralded an uptick in "malicious cyber campaigns" that attack healthcare facilities, according to U.S. and U.K. law…
This edition of Hacking Healthcare takes a look at how security researchers found serious vulnerabilities in a contact-tracing application used in the Philippines and highlights the role of coordinated vulnerability disclosure in remediating them. Next, we ponder what PayPal’s acceptance…
The attached weekly threat brief from the HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) on Chinese State-Sponsored Cyber Activity and covers the following topics:
According to industry experts, China has the most number of active APTs and threat actor groups when compared to other countries, followed by Russia, Iran and North Korea.
• FireEye currently publicly tracking a total of at least 28 APT groups with suspected attribution to China
• Out of these 28…
Nineteen organizations representing physicians and hospitals, including the AHA, urge congressional leaders to support legislation to freeze the thresholds for clinicians to qualify for advanced alternative payment model incentive payments for the 2021 and 2022 performance years.
In this podcast, we discuss the benefits of March of Dimes’s implicit bias training program titled, Breaking through Implicit Bias in Maternal Health Care.
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November 19, 2020
AMA, AHA, ANA issue open letter urging public to scale back…
In this episode, Rebecca Chickey, MPH, senior director of behavioral health and field engagement at the American Hospital Association is joined by Brian Kay, vice president of continuous improvement at Rogers Behavioral Health, as well as Dr. Patrick O’Malley, medical director of primary care…