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Government moves for summary judgement in disclosure of negotiated charges lawsuit.
In their recent paper, Beaulieu et al. attempt to estimate the effects of hospital acquisitions on measures of hospital quality at the acquired hospitals. To do so, the authors use four measures of hospital quality and compare the changes in these measures at acquired hospitals relative to changes…
Hospitals and health systems are transforming the way they deliver care in response to patients’ and communities’ changing needs and preferences. At the same time, they face many headwinds such as low government payment rates, increasing prescription drug costs and shifting demographics.
The Society for Health Care Strategy & Market Development (SHSMD) of the American Hospital Association (AHA) released Futurescan 2020-2025: Health Care Trends and Implications, a highly respected report developed jointly with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).
Recently, malicious cyber threat actors have been leveraging the current news cycle to launch Coronavirus themed cyberattacks at their targets.
In September 2019, this Court issued a decision finding portions of the CMS rulemaking governing Medicare payments for hospital outpatient services for Calendar Year (CY) 2019 to be ultra vires, vacating those portions of the 2019 Final Rule. CMS filed a motion to modify the Court’s order to permit…
This is an action to challenge certain aspects of a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within HHS, for Medicare hospital outpatient services in calendar year (CY) 2020.
National Cyber Awareness System:
AA20-031A: Detecting Citrix CVE-2019-19781<
Beginning mid-January 2020, unidentified cyber actors have used a Citrix vulnerability, CVE-2019-19781, in an attempt to exploit hundreds of U.S. networks, to include private companies, educational institutions, healthcare-related infrastructure, and local and federal…
Cyber Security for the Small Medical Practice in Ten Minutes.