Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2025

twelve months ago: uncertainties about private/commercial insurance and employment-based health benefits, as well as uncertainties about Medicaid erosion, Medicare benefit access and enrollment, the status of NIH-funded and tracked clinical trials, and many other aspects of health care security play into these landscapes. .”

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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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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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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

on February 14, 2025. The account review confirmed that a limited amount of patient data had been exposed including names, medical record numbers, dates of birth, treatment dates, encounter numbers, and patients ages. Topy America Topy America Inc.,

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 18, 2025

Other healthcare providers known to have been affected include Rhea Medical Center and Hamilton County in Tennessee. Notification letters were mailed to the affected individuals two months later, on March 31, 2025. Individual notification letters were mailed on March 21, 2025.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 16, 2025

The hackers encrypted files and stole data such as names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, demographic information, Social Security numbers, drivers license numbers, medical record numbers, health information, payment information, and health insurance information.

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Practice Index

APRIL 10, 2025

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: It is only because of the necessary decisions we took to increase employer National Insurance that we are able to recruit more GPs and deliver better services for patients. The post Primary care news round-up (3rd to 9th April 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 1, 2025

A comprehensive and time-intensive review of the affected accounts was recently concluded, and it was confirmed that names, addresses, Social Security numbers, drivers license numbers, bank account information, payment card information, dates of birth, medical information, and health insurance information were stored in the accounts.

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Being so close to the New Year, it is of high importance that your medical practice finishes its medical billing in good time. This will go a long way toward your medical practice’s financial health and operational efficiency. Here are three essential tasks to help you wrap up your medical billing for the New Year: 1.

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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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Medication Billing Documentation Appointments 52

CollaborateMD

APRIL 3, 2025

Healthcare practices are often plagued with medical billing compliance questions like: “Am I upcoding?” ” With all of these concerns, it’s vital that providers and billing departments understand and follow the key elements of proper medical billing compliance to run a successful practice.

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Practice Index

JANUARY 2, 2025

pay rise for GPs in 2025/26. The next GP contract: promises and uncertainty When it comes to funding, the Government sneaked in, just before the festive period, early details of the next GP contract for 2025/26. Before Christmas, the Government announced its proposal for a 2.8%

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 19, 2025

A data review vendor was engaged, and Access TeleCare was provided with the final results of the review on August 30, 2024; however, it took until March 4, 2025, for individual notifications to be mailed. On January 14, 2025, an employee emailed a document to a personal email account.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2025

The data review was completed on February 13, 2025, and confirmed that names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical information, treatment information, healthcare provider information, and health insurance information had been exposed.

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HIPAA Insurance Medication 69

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

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 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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The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A friend of mine who wants to stay anonymous (for now at any rate) had a crazy waste of time proving that he was eligibile for a medication on his plan. I thought his story might trigger a few of you!

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 2, 2025

SimonMed Imaging has recently confirmed that it was affected by a cybersecurity incident earlier this year that involved unauthorized access to patient data via one of its vendors.The Scottsdale, Arizona-based radiology practice said that on January 27, 2025, it was alerted by one of its vendors that they were experiencing a security incident.

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HIPAA Insurance Medication 54

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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Insurance HIPAA Billing Medication 89

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 15, 2025

A hacker gained access to its network on February 3, 2025, and downloaded ransomware, which was used to encrypt files on its network. The types of information involved vary from individual to individual and include names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, and patient dental/medical records. Data theft was also confirmed.

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HIPAA Insurance Medication 77

The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 4, 2025

Notification letters were mailed to the affected individuals on February 21, 2025. After an extensive forensic investigation and comprehensive document review, on March 21, 2025, we determined your personal data may have been subject to unauthorized access or acquisition, which occurred between November 4, 2023, and November 5, 2023.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

But consider the statistic that, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there will be a shortage of 65,500 physicians expected in 2020, and 90,400 in 2025. Across political party, most Americans also favor some flavor of universal health insurance. This is sobering through just the N=1 physician lens.

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Insurance Patient Care Medication 91

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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Medication Hospital Billing Insurance 67

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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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 10, 2025

Cyberattacks have recently been announced by Community Care Alliance in Rhode Island, Central Texas Pediatric Orthopedics, and Whitman Hospital and Medical Clinics in Washington. The Texas Attorney General was notified about the incident on March 6, 2025; however, individual notification letters have yet to be mailed.

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HIPAA Hospital Insurance Medication 51

Amber Pharmacy

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It’s important to know about big changes coming to Medicare Part D in 2025 that can help you manage your prescription costs more easily. Here’s what will be different: $2,000 Out-of-Pocket Limit: In 2025, you won’t have to pay more than $2,000 for your medications in a year. This means more predictable costs throughout the year.

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Insurance Medication 52

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 25, 2025

A minority of the affected individuals had their Social Security numbers and/or drivers license numbers exposed.Individual notification letters are now being mailed to the affected individuals, and complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services have been offered to individuals whose Social Security numbers were involved.

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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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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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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 18, 2025

subsidiary that provides life insurance and retirement software and services. In a regulatory filing on March 14, 2025, Infosys McCamish confirmed that a settlement has been agreed in principle to resolve all claims and allegations made in six class action lawsuits, with the proposed agreement settling all pending class action lawsuits.

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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. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This has happened across many stakeholders in the evolving health/care ecosystem of suppliers, including hospital systems, health plans, grocery chains, retail pharmacy, consumer technology, digital health and tech-enabled providers, pharma and medical supply companies. Why, that’s just some months away from “now.”

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 18, 2025

That process was completed in February 2025 and confirmed that the stolen data included employee benefit plan information such as names, Social Security numbers, drivers license/state ID numbers, medical treatment information, and health insurance information.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We can turn now to the Global Wellness Institute’s latest forecast on the world market for wellness, which GWI expects will hit a $7 trillion market in 2025. These sources are more likely to be search engines than insurance sites, hospital sites, or pharma sites.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 22, 2024

While there are many available NP career choices, the family nurse practitioner (FNP) is a trendy option among nurses seeking to become primary care providers with the authority to diagnose illnesses, order diagnostic tests, prescribe medications, and manage the care of patients across the lifespan.

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