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Jul 18, 2025
The FBI and CMS each issued alerts to warn health care organizations and the public of ongoing fraud schemes and phishing scams. The agencies have observed criminals impersonating legitimate health insurers and their investigative team members to extract sensitive information from patients.
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Jul 18, 2025
Older adults are moving into senior living communities at record rates, led by independent living and active adult rental communities, according to the National Investment Center for Senior Housing & Care, which reported that the US senior living occupancy rate increased 0.8 percentage points to 88.1% in the second quarter.
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Jul 18, 2025
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Jun 27, 2025
House and Senate lawmakers introduced the bipartisan Healthcare Cybersecurity Act in an effort to safeguard medical data and increase coordination between federal agencies. Similar legislation was introduced in the 117th and 118th Congresses in 2022 and 2024, respectively.
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Jun 27, 2025
Despite increasing workloads and persistent stress, the percentage of long-term care workers planning to leave the industry has fallen by about 25% over the last three years. At the same time, the percentage of senior care workers saying improved work-life balance would help retain them has doubled.
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Jun 27, 2025
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Jun 13, 2025
Paying registered nurses just a dollar per hour more gives nursing homes a 2.4% higher chance of earning a 5-star quality rating, according to a new study. That would be as little as a $56 weekly investment in some buildings.
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Jun 13, 2025
A Medicare Advantage (MA) plan run by CVS inflated diagnoses for its members between 2018 and 2019, resulting in almost $7 million in estimated overpayments, according to a new audit by the HHS Office of the Inspector General.
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Jun 13, 2025
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May 30, 2025
The Trump administration is threatening to halt federal Medicaid funding to states it says are illegally using the safety-net insurance program to cover health care for undocumented immigrants.
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May 30, 2025
An analysis from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy looked at how a 25% tariff on Canadian-manufactured pharmaceuticals could raise US drug costs by as much as $750 million and place serious strain on supply chains. About 400 medications are imported to the US from Canada, and it is the only available source for nearly 30 of them.
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May 30, 2025
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May 13, 2025
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed a rule on May 12 seeking to overhaul state provider tax polices. If finalized, the rule could upend a decades-long strategy for financing Medicaid coverage.
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May 13, 2025
Health insurers’ efforts to raise premiums and cut benefits this year to recoup margins are bearing fruit, with all major publicly traded payers exceeding Wall Street expectations in the first quarter — with one notable exception.
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May 13, 2025
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May 01, 2025
Improving patient payments and payer reimbursement rates is a top priority for physician practices, according to a new survey from AdvancedMD.
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May 01, 2025
Health care leaders are excited about the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) to reshape the sector, but relatively few pilots of the emerging technology have been fully implemented so far, according to a report by Bessemer Venture Partners, Amazon Web Services and Bain & Company.
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May 01, 2025
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Apr 17, 2025
Your OSCPA membership might be expiring on April 30! Be sure to renew to maintain your access to the resources, connections and solutions engage, enable and empower you and your team.
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Feb 28, 2025
FinCEN will extend the current March 21 BOI reporting deadline, has suspended BOI enforcement and fines and will develop new regulations it says will reduce "regulatory burden," the agency said on Feb. 27.