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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 18, 2025
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has again delayed its mandatory provider revalidation program for nursing homes, this time giving providers until Aug. 1 to report far more organizational ties than were previously required.
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Apr 18, 2025
Effectively tackling systemic health care cybersecurity challenges remains a pain point for health care organizations of all sizes. New benchmarking data collected from health care and payer organizations shows that the sector is continuing to take a reactive, rather than proactive, approach to reducing risk.
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Apr 18, 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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Apr 04, 2025
The House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee April 1 discussed cybersecurity threats in legacy medical devices during a hearing. The subcommittee heard from experts on the dangers of outdated devices as the hardware can last several years longer than software.
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Apr 04, 2025
Nonprofit hospitals with early fiscal year end dates improved their financial performance in 2024 compared with 2023, according to an analysis published last week by credit rating agency Fitch Ratings.
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Apr 04, 2025
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Mar 13, 2025
As the financial sector moves forward with AI plans, banks added governance and ethical use expertise to their workforces last year, according to research by Evident Insights. Out of 50 large banks surveyed, 41 had dedicated AI governance professionals in Q4 2024, up from 31 the prior year, the industry research firm said in a report.
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Mar 07, 2025
Seven major industry groups - including one representing healthcare CISOs and CIOs - are urging the Trump administration to rescind a proposed update to the 20-year-old HIPAA Security Rule issued in the final weeks of the Biden administration. The groups say the costs and regulatory burden on the healthcare sector to implement the changes would be "staggering."
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Mar 07, 2025
HHS has shared plans to revoke a policy March 3 that requires public notice and comment for certain agency management areas.
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Mar 07, 2025
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