Hospitals Report Predicts Hundreds of Billions in Losses if ACA Repealed
Susan HuntingtonThe American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) released a report on December 6, Estimating the Impact of Repealing the Affordable…
New NIST Security Standard Will Affect Health Care Industry
On November 16, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released Special Publication 800-160, which focuses on the engineering actions that need to be…
OCR Guidance Confirms That Cloud Vendors Are Business Associates
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently released a document entitled Guidance on HIPAA & Cloud Computing which puts to…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced through a fact sheet released on October 31 that it is again delaying the new Medicare…
Nursing Homes File Lawsuit Against CMS Challenging Arbitration Limitations
In response to the new rule published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) barring nursing homes that receive federal funds from requiring…
On September 28, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule entitled “Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Reform of Requirements for Long-Term…
Ralph J. Cox III, the former CEO of Tuomey Healthcare System, has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under which he…
ONC Releases Updated Guide on Buying EHR Systems
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) just published a new guide to help hospitals…
CMS Gets Serious About Emergency Preparedness
On September 8, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the public inspection version of the final rule, Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Emergency…
CMS Announces Flexibility on MACRA Requirements
With Congress having joined the increasing pressure from physicians concerning the proposed timeline for implementing Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) rules,…