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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
In case you missed them, here are some recent interesting health care news items from around the web.
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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.
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Feb 21, 2025
Electronic health records (EHRs) are undergoing a major transformation as vendors increasingly integrate artificial intelligence to ease the burden on clinicians.
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Feb 21, 2025
Republicans are considering implementing work requirements for the safety-net insurance program — linking beneficiaries’ eligibility to work, education or volunteer hours — as they look to fund President Trump’s promised tax cuts. A previous proposal to add work requirements to Medicaid would save the federal government $109 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.