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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Oct. 29 issued a final rule to update the home health (HH) prospective payment system for calendar year (CY) 2021.
Federal agencies this morning are providing new information on an imminent ransomware threat to U.S. hospitals.
Issue
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) hospital price transparency final rule, issued Nov. 14, 2019, will require hospitals to provide an out-of-pocket price estimator tool or information on 300 “shoppable” services for patients as well as disclose their privately…
The Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor today released a final rule imposing new transparency requirements on non-grandfathered group health plans and issuers of non-grandfathered health insurance coverage in the individual and group markets.
This Special Bulletin details the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology’s interim final rule with comment period to delay the Nov. 2 compliance date for the information blocking provisions of ONC’s Cures Act final rule, while also extending timelines for certain…
The AHA today submitted
This advisory pulls together resources and strategies for creating care capacity, keeping people save, ensuring safe transport, keeping information safe, monitoring social media and mitigating community shutdowns
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last night issued a joint advisory warning of credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and…
UCHealth – Aurora, Colo. Innovative
Tools Help Consumers Estimate Out-of-pocket Expenses
UCHealth is an innovator in providing individualized outof- pocket cost estimates that are specific to patients’ own insurance situations via its online patient portal, mobile app and through a dedicated call…
n 2017, Memorial Healthcare System (MHS) launched an online tool for prospective patients to determine their out-ofpocket costs in advance of scheduling a procedure.