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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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2025

Health Care in 2025 Requires Scenario Planning: The Uncertainties That Inspire DIY Healthcare appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. The post U.S.

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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 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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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2025

ixlayer and Ipsos identified four key challenges addressing the UX/CX patient-centered views on dealing with biopharma for personal medical management; these covered, Communication Convenience Care support, and, Access barriers. households earning over $180,000 a year are now worried about medical bills in America.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

between 2023 and 2024, according to the 2024 Milliman Medical Index. Milliman also calculated that the largest driver of cost increase in health care, accounting for nearly one-half of medical cost increases, was pharmacy, the cost of prescription drugs, which grew 13% in the year.

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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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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

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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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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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 25, 2025

Data security incidents have been announced by Columbia Eye Clinic in Colorado, Meigs County Emergency Medical Services in Ohio, Cottrills Specialty Pharmacy in New York, and ALN Medical Management in Colorado. On January 21, 2025, Meigs EMS identified unauthorized access to an employee email account.

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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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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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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

MARCH 20, 2025

First, I asked Harm about the origin story for Unvendor : I note that Harm has worn many professional hats in health care in his career, including those of a physician, a chief medical information officer, a healthcare informaticist, and a software developer. With this background, how did the idea for authoring the book gel?

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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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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

When I solicited a 2025 update, Muhlestein obliged with a Google trends graph tracing relative usage since 2004. The terms health care, medical care, medical services and health services were largely used interchangeably during this period. The American Medical Association at first fretted that the show, Marcus Welby, M.D.

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Running a successful medical practice requires more than providing excellent patient care. Reports are a great data-driven means of benchmarking the performance of specific processes or functions within your medical practice. Five essential reports every medical practice should run 1. At Health Prime, we can help!

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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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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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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. CA Healthcare Provider 2,364,359 Hacking/IT Incident 57 2024 Medical Management Resource Group, L.L.C. This page is regularly updated to reflect the latest healthcare data breach statistics.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

Since then, OCR has been cracking down on entities that have failed to provide individuals with timely access to their medical records. 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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the WebMD family.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

On January 8, 2025, a federal grand jury in Virginia returned an indictment against a hospital. This rare criminal event in healthcare alleges that Chesapeake Regional Medical Center conspired to defraud the United States and committed healthcare fraud. The hospital was not charged until January 2025.

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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. Documentation in the medical record. At a minimum, each patient’s medical record should reflect care team coordination at the following time points: Start of care.

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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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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. Economy-wide inflation grew 12.4%

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 30, 2025

Examples of HIPAA business associates include medical billing service providers, software providers (including Managed Service Providers), and accreditation organizations with access to PHI. medical specialists, laboratories, etc.) There are exceptions to this definition of a HIPAA business associate. or for payment processing.

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Milwaukee Career College

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Updated April 2025 Do I need certification to become a medical assistant? Certification isnt legally required to be a medical assistant, but it makes you much more employable. Getting your medical assistant certification shows employers your competency and commitment to the career. Is medical assistant training full-time?

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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

Ensure accurate documentation Insufficient or inconsistent documentation can trigger denials for medical necessity, level of service, or authorization errors. This transparency helps patients plan for out-of-pocket expenses and avoid billing surprises, improving their propensity to pay. Denial prevention strategies 1.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Complementing the Commonwealth Fund and CFPB data (discussed below) is another report out this week from Glassdoor addressing Worklife Trends 2025 published this week. consumers who had difficulty in making ends meet in home budgets, paying medical expenses were a challenge for 41% of people.

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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%. Now it is a 16.5% margin business.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2025

Two new reports to consider in the context of this post published this week: From The Commonwealth Fund , on the impact of medical bills, medical debt, and health care costs on Americans. Updated data on the maternal mortality crisis in the United States published in J AMA Network Open this week.

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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

It is common for medical records to be overlaid, where multiple patients records are merged into a single record. 2024, Black Book Research found that repeated medical care due to duplicate health records costs an average of $1,950 per patient (inpatient stay) and over $1,750 per ED visit. This is far from an isolated example.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Both Republicans and Democrats and congresses have strongly supported Ryan’s bill. The post How World AIDS Day 2024 Can Inform Healthcare in 2025 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Here is what Jeanne said yesterday at the event: “In many ways, personal grief has fueled the AIDS movement since the beginning.

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