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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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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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. It categorizes unpaid patient invoices and insurance claims by age, typically in 30-day increments. They help you track the efficiency of your billing processes and identify potential bottlenecks.

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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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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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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

health consumers is with the health care system industry segments like hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — as patients differentiate between the “system” and the “people” working in it. Start with over-arching finding that, “Three out of four patients believe the U.S.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 28, 2025

After an extensive investigation and manual document review, we discovered on February 14, 2025, that some personal and/or protected health information of individuals was contained in the compromised email account that was subject to unauthorized access and acquisition, explained Alternate Solutions Health Network in the notification letters.

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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

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. It categorizes unpaid patient invoices and insurance claims by age, typically in 30-day increments. They help you track the efficiency of your billing processes and identify potential bottlenecks.

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Medication Billing Documentation Appointments 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. Now consider a vision/optical insurance plan entering the retailing side of the business.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

When I solicited a 2025 update, Muhlestein obliged with a Google trends graph tracing relative usage since 2004. was founded by a Minneapolis businessman whod previously been involved in a health maintenance organization (a new kind of insurance product) organized by doctors whod named it Physicians Health Plan.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

The inflation multiplier for 2025 was set by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as 1.02598. Another increase is due to be applied on January 15, 2025, but will likely be applied much later. HIPAA Violation Cases 2025 Comprehensive Neurology Comprehensive Neurology is a small New York neurology practice.

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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. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc. This page is regularly updated to reflect the latest healthcare data breach statistics. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center Inc.

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Valant

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Biden administration announced a finalized Mental Health Parity Rule on September 9, 2024, bringing significant changes to how insurers cover mental health care. Most provisions of the rule will take effect on January 1, 2025, with some to be phased in by 2026.

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 17, 2025

Fierce Healthcare just issued a 2025 healthcare outlook with several key findings, including: An American Hospital Association (AHA) report published in 2024 finds reimbursement from government payers is not keeping pace with the high costs of drugs, labor, and supplies and the inflation rate. Expensive technologies.

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Billing Insurance Hospital Medication 84

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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Milwaukee Career College

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Updated April 2025 Do I need certification to become a medical assistant? The administrative coursework consists of office management, medical ethics, insurance billing, bookkeeping, computer skills, and more. Certification isnt legally required to be a medical assistant, but it makes you much more employable.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

.” In this Health Populi post, I’m weaving together three just-published studies that together fill in a profile of the current state of health consumers in America — in particular, working-insured health citizens. We’ll focus on people who are working and covered with health insurance through an employer.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2025

consumer at a point in time — late April 2025 — reminding us more than once during the hourlong session that, “Everything is constantly changing.” consumers as of April 25, 2025. consumer data presented byJohn Dick, Founder and CEO of CivicScience. adults has been on the downturn since November 2024.

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Health Prime

MAY 5, 2025

Verify insurance eligibility Prior to appointments, it is important for staff to conduct a thorough insurance check to confirm coverage details, eligibility, and pre-authorization requirements for specific tests or procedures. Oftentimes, internal teams find they need outside billing and revenue cycle support.

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Valant

APRIL 21, 2025

For example, staff members who handle billing need insurance information, but not detailed clinical notes. Practices should define role-based access levels, granting providers full clinical access while limiting administrative staff to only scheduling and billing permissions. Assess security technology needs (e.g.,

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

By JEFF GOLDSMITH A Forty Year Growth Saga is Coming to an End After market close Wednesday April 16, UnitedHealth Group reported its First Quarter 2025 earnings. UNH missed their expected 1Q earnings by 9 cents a share, but the firm also lowered its full year 2025 earnings estimate by 12%.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Newsletter: Between the Charts - January 2025 Manual: Between the Charts Archive (news.connect-care.ca) Feedback: CMIO-Manual@ahs.ca If you have any feedback on this issue or have a suggestion for content you'd like included in a future issue, please send us an email.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2025

We see professional associations like the AAFP (family practitioners) and the APA (American Psychologists Association), AHIP (representing health insurance) and Kaiser Permanente; health care providers; and, patient/disease advocacy representing cancer, liver, spinal, OB/GYN, and mental health, among other conditions and concerns.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

I’ll review these studies in this post, and discuss several potential impacts we should keep in mind for peoples’ health and care in 2025 and beyond. Start with the Ipsos Consumer Tracker for February 2025, which identified a rise in U.S. consumers feel most costs of living are up in the first quarter of 2025.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 13, 2025

If all records are tied to a single identifier, an individuals entire health history could be compromised, and a unique patient identifier could facilitate tracking, leading to discrimination against individuals for work, insurance, credit, and opportunities, with that discrimination potentially lasting an entire lifetime.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Kaiser Family Foundation has hit the 2025 health policy ground running in publishing the January 2025 Health Tracking Poll last week and a poll on health care trust and mis-information yesterday. As of the second week of January 2025, the top priorities for health care among U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

elections, on probably policy and market impacts that we can expect in 2025 and beyond. insured consumers’ perspectives on prescription drug pricing and the role of PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers). 9 in 10 insured Americans felt that prescriptions are more expensive in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

I generated four scenarios on health care consumers in 2030; the four alternative futures looked like this: As we enter 2025, my view for the next 1-3 years is that people in America feel like they live in the lower left matrix: where fragmentation meets bureaucracy, as health care castaways. Why The Rough Guide reference?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2025

How will we know if the life sciences sector is advancing in 2025? This is the question asked at the start of the report, a Research Brief: 2025 Indicators of Progress for the Life Sciences Sector, from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science (IQVIA). Kennedy, Jr., at the concluding minutes of the HELP meeting on 30th January.

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2025

By MICHAEL MILLENSON January In a blistering commentary, the American Medical Associations flagship journal, JAMA , condemns the corrosive effect on patient care of the profit-seeking practices of health insurers. The editor of JAMA resigns after ChatGPT writes an editorial extolling the merits of MA plans run by for-profit companies.

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