Business Management & Strategy

Jun 27, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

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.

Jun 27, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

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.

Jun 27, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

In case you missed them, here are some recent interesting health care news items from around the web.

Jun 13, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

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.

Jun 13, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

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.

Jun 13, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

In case you missed them, here are some recent interesting health care news items from around the web.

May 30, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

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.

May 30, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

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.

May 30, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

In case you missed them, here are some recent interesting health care news items from around the web.

May 13, 2025, 02:00 AM by Natalie Rooney

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.

May 13, 2025, 02:00 AM by Natalie Rooney

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.

May 13, 2025, 02:00 AM by Natalie Rooney

In case you missed them, here are some recent interesting health care news items from around the web.

May 1, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

Improving patient payments and payer reimbursement rates is a top priority for physician practices, according to a new survey from AdvancedMD.

May 1, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

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.

May 1, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

In case you missed them, here are some recent interesting health care news items from around the web.

Apr 18, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

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.

Apr 18, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

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.

Apr 18, 2025, 00:00 AM by Jessica Barboza

In case you missed them, here are some recent interesting health care news items from around the web.

Apr 17, 2025, 02:00 AM by Natalie Rooney

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.

Feb 28, 2025, 02:00 AM by Natalie Rooney

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.