In today’s digital age, healthcare providers face an ever-growing threat: the medical data breach. With sensitive patient information at stake, it’s crucial for healthcare organizations to stay vigilant and proactive. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll delve into what medical data breaches are, explore notable incidents, discuss legal frameworks,
The Valley Hospital, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, and Holy Name Medical Center all use Medical Management LLC of North Carolina for emergency department physician billing. An employee who worked at this company from February 2013 through March 2015 was passing on the names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of patients at these three facilities.
On April 16th, President Obama signed into law the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA CMS reform). This historic Medicare Reform has several very important effects on Medicare.
The legislation permanently repeals the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), creates a framework for rewarding clinicians for value over volume,
If you are unhappy with your EMR, you are not alone. A recent report from a study of over 750 small practices (practice with 1-10 physicians) performed by KLAS shows that a quarter of these practices feel that they are stuck with their EMR even though it does not meet their expectations, or are planning to change their EMR.
Recently, The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 301-page proposed rules for Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program. Under the proposal, beginning in 2018, no matter the level of previous participation, users would report on Stage 3 with the option to start using it in 2017.
Ranking well below the national average of 69%, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report show that only 38.7% of New Jersey doctors are accepting new Medicaid patients in 2013, making New Jersey the lowest ranking state (the 2011/2012 survey placed New Jersey at 46%, still at the bottom). California comes in second at 54.2% while New Jersey neighboring states of New York,
On March 26th the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation (with a 392-37 vote) to permanently replace the Medicare sustainable growth rate formula and reimbursement mechanism. The senate did not review the bill before its 2 week recess. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said that the Senate will act quickly on the legislation when the session resumes on April 13 stating,
With three more healthcare security breaches recently reported, the issue of security is again in the forefront of healthcare news. In a new report from CyberEdge Group, 52% of security professionals say their organization will likely be successfully attacked in the next year. The number of actual reported hacks continues to increase with some 16% reporting multiple attacks.
Groups including American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Academy of Family Physicians recently wrote to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) voicing their concerns stating that “the transition to ICD-10 represents one of the largest technical, operational, and business implementations in the health care industry in the past several decades” and arguing that there needs to be industry wide end-to-end testing as the current testing shows results only for a broad overview of claims.
