The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 19, 2025

The breach was detected on January 15, 2025, and immediate action was taken to prevent further unauthorized access. The forensic investigation confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed the account between January 10, 2025, and January 14, 2025, and potentially viewed or acquired patient data.

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Practice Index

MARCH 27, 2025

Some doctors face a cliff edge when any extra earnings trigger a tax bill of 22,500. The post Primary care news round-up (20th to 26th March 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. The BMAs survey of GPs found that 23% said they reduced their workload this year because of the tapered pension tax rules. sessions a week.

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Practice Index

JANUARY 2, 2025

So, I ask you, instead of Im busy, what will you say in 2025? Id love to hear your ideas about how we turn how were feeling into a positive rather than a negative. And how do we explain to people that our role is more than just busy? The post Busy or unpredictable? – By Kay Keane appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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Billing 105

Medical Economics

JANUARY 31, 2025

Legislation could counter total 6.43% budget cut, but time is ticking away, doctors say.

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Billing 97

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 28, 2025

On March 20, 2025, Pineland Community Service Board disclosed a security incident detected on January 20, 2025. The forensic investigation confirmed unauthorized network access between November 24, 2024, and January 20, 2025, during which time the threat actor viewed or copied information from its network.

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Appointments HIPAA Insurance Billing 55

Scrubs

MAY 23, 2023

Assembly Bill 418 would ban the manufacture, sale and distribution of foods containing five harmful substances starting in 2025, including: Red dye No. The bill was sponsored by assembly members Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland Hills) and Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland). In response to the bill, the FDA defended its actions in an email.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 21, 2025

On March 17, 2025, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed Legislative Bill 241 into law, which limits class action liability for private entities for cybersecurity events. The new law will take effect three months from the adjournment of the Nebraska Legislatures 2025 session.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 1, 2025

All claims must be submitted by or be postmarked by June 30, 2025. The settlement has received preliminary approval from the court, and the final approval hearing has been scheduled for June 16, 2025. The deadline for objection to and exclusion from the settlement has passed. The post Azura Vascular Care Agrees to $3.15

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Health Prime

AUGUST 15, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the ICD-10-CM code set update for fiscal year (FY) 2025. These changes will impact medical billing, coding practices, and healthcare administration.

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Billing Medical Coding Documentation Discharges 105

Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2025

For this inaugural report, ixlayer and Ipsos surveyed 414 patients online in January 2025 who were dealing with asthma, COPD, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, psoriasis, or atopic dermatitis. households earning over $180,000 a year are now worried about medical bills in America. And even 40% of U.S.

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Patient Experience Medication Billing Communication 62

Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Were shifting our focus to the reports you should run regularly in 2025 to keep a pulse on your practices ongoing performance. To take action, follow up promptly on overdue accounts, review and optimize your billing processes to reduce delays, and consider implementing automated reminders for patients and insurance companies.

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Medication Billing Documentation Appointments 52

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners. Drive population health.

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Insurance Billing Medication Hospital 71

Health Prime

JANUARY 15, 2025

Revenue cycle management (RCM) challenges are constant in the healthcare industry, and 2025 will be no exception. At Health Prime , our billing experts compiled a list of the top four RCM challenges healthcare businesses face in 2025 and some strategies for addressing some strategies to address them effectively.

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Billing Patient Experience Hospital Medication 52

Health Prime

JANUARY 15, 2025

Revenue cycle management (RCM) challenges are constant in the healthcare industry, and 2025 will be no exception. At Health Prime , our billing experts compiled a list of the top four RCM challenges healthcare businesses face in 2025 and some strategies for addressing some strategies to address them effectively.

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Billing Patient Experience Hospital Medication 52

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 25, 2025

Columbia Eye Clinic, South Carolina Columbia Eye Clinic, a medical and surgical ophthalmology practice with four locations in Columbia and Lexington in South Carolina, announced a data security incident on March 14, 2025, involving the exposure of patients’ protected health information.

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Insurance HIPAA Billing Medication 89

Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

This year, I opted for a 2025 Subaru Forester and a year’s tuition for a New Mexico resident living off-campus for 2023-24 attending University of New Mexico.

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Medication Follow-Up Billing Insurance 77

Valant

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services has released new ICD-10-CM codes for the 2025 fiscal year, including important updates for categories F01F99: Mental, Behavioral, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 2025 ICD 10 CM Code Updates Announcement Update The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a part of the U.S.

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Documentation Billing Medication 52

Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Given that Harm recently participated in the annual 2025 HIMSS conference , I was keen to know how his collegial physicians and health IT professionals were reacting to the idea of unvendoring. RPA can now be used for administrative and financial applications say, for billing, denials, registrations. The post One Way to Improve U.S.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

MARCH 27, 2024

ACI Medical & Dental School Has Been Designated As A Military Friendly® School for 2024/2025 We are proud to announce that ACI Medical & Dental School has been chosen for the Military Friendly® Schools designation for 2024/2025. Contact ACI Medical & Dental School today to learn more!

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Medication Unit Organization and Environment Admissions Billing 52

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Note that patients falling into all four of these segments believe, in the words of Lavidge, that, “companies developing health care technology care more about making money than helping patients…All patients worry that a single medical bill could severely impact their financial security.”

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Insurance Patient Centered Care Communication Medication 62

Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Another way to reduce costs of administration in health care operations is to move from paper to electronic formats — long overdue in the eyes of patients who are increasingly dealing with medical bill paying as payers for out-of-pocket expenses. Banks experience. The chart here illustrates U.S. AI can help here, too.

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Billing Patient Experience Follow-Up Insurance 83

Medbridge

MARCH 6, 2024

We spoke to leading home health agencies to understand what went right, what went wrong, and what they want to improve to get ready for the payment adjustments coming in 2025. It’s been a year since the first performance year (2023) under Home Health Value-based Purchasing, and there’s a lot to unpack!

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Documentation Billing 98

Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Were shifting our focus to the reports you should run regularly in 2025 to keep a pulse on your practices ongoing performance. To take action, follow up promptly on overdue accounts, review and optimize your billing processes to reduce delays, and consider implementing automated reminders for patients and insurance companies.

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Medication Billing Documentation Appointments 52

Valant

JANUARY 14, 2025

In 2025, every EHR vendor should ask themselves how well their product lives up to its promises. They all make big promises, but their ability to deliver on those promises varies greatly. Practice managers and owners are caught in the middle, trying to figure out what they actually need and which brand might provide it.

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Scheduling Best Practices Documentation Billing 52

Healthcare Law Insights blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Last fall, private equity and hedge fund investors were given a reprieve from the prospect of increased oversight of healthcare transactions when California Governor Gavin Newsom unexpectedly vetoed Assembly Bill 3129 (AB 3129). Rather it creates a basis for enforcement based on conduct which occurs after the bill becomes law.

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Billing Medical Assistant Diagnostics Tests 52

Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

” The implementation of electronic health records, spurred on by the HITECH Act which was embedded in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the Stimulus Bill) resulted in lots of EHRs deployed in hospitals and doctor’s offices, with huge gaps in interoperability and data liquidity. of the U.S.

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Hospital Collaboration Billing Communication 110

The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 19, 2024

They deliver and bill for even more pieces when the health of a member deteriorates. They made it clear in their annual report that the cost levels for MA plans for 2025 will go up by 3.3% —not by the 12% that MedPac warned everyone about in their inaccurate and misleading report.

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Billing Hospital 117

Healthcare Law Insights blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

On January 8, 2025, a federal grand jury in Virginia returned an indictment against a hospital. million worth of fraudulent billings to health programs, both for himself and the hospitals where his fraudulent procedures were performed. The hospital was not charged until January 2025. Dr. Perwaiz was sentenced in May 2021.

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Hospital Sterilization Follow-Up Documentation 52

Healthcare Law Insights blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

On February 25, 2025, the U.S. The crux of the guilty plea was that the defendant billed Idaho Medicaid for services not provided or for services that were knowingly inflated in claims to Idaho Medicaid. The defendant had other companies that got PPP loans as well and ultimately is alleged to have received around $1.8

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Certification Billing 52

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

per average internet user per month in 2025, $3.18 A huge friction point we identified in our data-for-healthcare-good panel wrapping up the day is surprise medical billing due to patients’ unwitting use of out-of-network physicians and providers. Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36 for Americans.

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Insurance HIPAA Patient Care Billing 102

Relias

AUGUST 15, 2022

CMS is proposing a requirement for agencies to submit OASIS data for all patients, regardless of payer, and not just for Medicare or Medicaid patients, beginning in 2025. CMS is still not allowing billing for telehealth, and no reimbursement is outlined in the proposed rule. Mandatory Telehealth Reporting.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

These statistics and graphs were last updated on March 21, 2025, and are based on data obtained from OCR on March 19, 2025. OCR Penalties for HIPAA Violations (2008 – 2025) Year Covered Entity Amount Penalty Type 2024 Oregon Health & Science University $200,000 Civil Monetary Penalty 2024 Warby Parker Inc.

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Business Associate HIPAA Unit Organization and Environment Hospital 111

Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The HHCAHPS Survey will determine 30% of an agency’s total performance score, and that score will in turn determine the agency’s payment adjustment for 2025. Since agencies can’t bill for time that clinicians spend away from the front line, setting aside dedicated periods of regular care coordination may not happen regularly.

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Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Follow-Up Documentation 52

Valant

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With the new regulations set to take effect January 1, 2025, many behavioral health practices will need to prepare for changes that could impact their reimbursement procedures, service delivery, and regulatory compliance. Most provisions of the rule will take effect on January 1, 2025, with some to be phased in by 2026.

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Documentation Billing Insurance Patient Care 111

Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2021

Spending on medicines, globally, will rebound this year and rise above pre-pandemic levels through 2025. Between 2021 and 2025, the annual growth global growth rate for prescription drugs spending is expected to range from 3% to 6%, a $1.6 trillion bill for the worlds’s total Rx medicines market.

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Billing Hospital 62

Practice Management Institute

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Calendar Year (CY) 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule was published on November 1, 2024. Many changes were scheduled to take place on January 1, 2025, and providers should understand the new regulations and guidelines to stay compliant with billing and coding practices.

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Scheduling Billing Certification 75

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 13, 2025

This week, a bipartisan pair of senators have taken steps to address the problem of patient mismatching with the introduction of thePatient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2025.The The MATCH IT Act of 2025 was introduced by Rep. The Act has now been reintroduced in the 119th Congress.

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HIPAA Patient Safety Billing Insurance 61