OCR enforces the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, which set out requirements that HIPAA-covered entities (most healthcare companies) ...

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Alex Kontur wrote in a Blog entry On August 19th, The Undersecretary of ...

An interesting study of Miquel Serra-Burriel et al. (2024) It examines the impact of genericisation on drug prices in ...

Significant loss of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage is often due to inefficient paperwork, overly burdensome reporting ...

Today marks the second anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, and it's clear how much progress the Biden-Harris Administration has made since then. ...

Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit integrated health system, has joined many other health systems across the country working with vendor ...

Medicare drug price negotiation is here. Medicare's maximum fair prices (MFPs) result in discounts of between 38% and 79%. In fact, the actual discounts ...

A Message from the Director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Workplace Equity (OEEOWE) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Orlando Health has agreed to purchase Tenet Healthcare's 70% majority stake in Brookwood Baptist Health in Birmingham, Alabama, for approximately $910 million ...

The Age-Friendly Health Systems movement saw a significant milestone when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently added an Age-Friendly ...

On July 19, 2024, Change Healthcare filed a violation report with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) regarding a ransomware attack that resulted in a ...

Boston-based Mass General Brigham, one of the leaders of the acute hospital-at-home movement, has received a grant to evaluate the delivery of short-term ...