HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 24, 2023

For the first time since 2015, there was a year-over-year decline in the number of data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), albeit only by 1.13% with 707 data breaches of 500 or more records reported. million records in 2022. million records in 2021 to 51.9

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2021

The Hy-Vee Medicare Aisle program will serve Medicare beneficiaries living in the company’s Midwest region, offering Medicare Advantage, Part D, and Supplement plans available through national and regional insurance companies. They plan to launch online digital quotes and enrollment on 1st October.

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HealthIT Answers

JANUARY 4, 2023

Notable 2022 news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry. The post Payer News in Review 2022 – Special Edition appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Achieving and maintaining compliance with the Privacy, Security, Breach Notification, and Omnibus Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can be a challenge for HIPAA-regulated entities. On December 14, 2022, Compliancy Group is hosting a webinar to demonstrate The Guard. PT ¦ 12:00 p.m.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2022

Achieving and maintaining compliance with all provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules can be a challenge for healthcare providers, health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and business associates of HIPAA-covered entities. Thursday, May, 19th, 2022. Fortunately, help is at hand.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets national standards to protect sensitive patient health information and to prevent that information from being disclosed without an individual’s knowledge or consent. The post Webinar: Aug 17, 2022: Do I Need to be HIPAA Compliant? contact-form-7].

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A lawsuit has been filed against Freehold Township, NJ-based CentraState Healthcare System over its December 2022 ransomware attack, a few days after the health system started sending notification letters to around 617,000 affected patients.

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HealthIT Answers

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry including news from Sesame, Angle Health, United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, CVS Health, Humana, AHIP, Oscar Health, and more.

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Health Insurance 52

HealthIT Answers

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry including news from Cohere Health, Humana, Cedar, CareSource, AHIP, UnitedHealthcare, Independence Blue Cross, CVS Health, Humana, Medica, Cigna, and more.

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Health Insurance 52

HealthIT Answers

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry including news from Cigna, UnitedHealth Group, Inovalon Inc., Independence Blue Cross, CVS Health, Humana, Aetna, AHIP, Gravie, Capital Blue Cross, Health Care Service Corporation, CareSource, and more.

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Health Insurance 52

HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry including news from AHIP, CVS Health, Cigna, Evernorth, American Medical Association, UnitedHealthcare, UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Labor First, and more. The post Revenue Cycle and Payer News – September 14, 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Health Insurance 52

HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It has been another bad year for healthcare data breaches, with some of the biggest HIPAA breaches of 2022 resulting in the impermissible disclosure of well over a million records. In addition to the high number of data breaches, 2022 stands out for the sheer number of healthcare records breached, which currently stands at 49.8

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HealthIT Answers

AUGUST 10, 2022

Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry including news from UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, CVS Health, Humana, AHIP, CareSource, Cigna, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, DrFirst, athenahealth, Aetna, HHS, and more.

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Health Insurance 52

HIPAA Journal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alvaria explained that the ransomware attack occurred on November 28, 2022, and steps were immediately taken to contain the attack and prevent further unauthorized access to its network. The post Alvaria Confirms November 2022 Hive Ransomware Attack appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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HealthIT Answers

JULY 13, 2022

Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry including news from Oscar Health, Aetna, AHIP, Very Well Health, UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Cigna, Oscar Health, HPI, Employers Health Network and more.

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Health Insurance 52

Kaiser Permanente

JANUARY 1, 2022

Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have served as critical supports to children, pregnant women, parents, seniors, and individuals with disabilities – covering 80 million individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Maximizing eligibility redeterminations in 2022 and beyond. million individuals (a 13.9

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The cost of health insurance for a worker who buys into a health plan at work in 2022 reached $22,463 for their family. The average monthly mortgage payment was $1,759 in mid-2022. “When housing and health both rank as basic needs in Maslow’s hierarchy, what’s a health system to do?”

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. increased by a relatively low 6.0% The post Post-Pandemic, U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In addition, Healthcare software providers and organizations must comply with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Recent Data Breaches: – November 2022: Ransomware Hacker Steals Medibank Data on 9.7m – September 2022: American Airlines Discloses Data Breach. Ransomware.

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Ransomware HIPAA Health Insurance Governance 52

AIHC

MAY 2, 2022

Written by: Melvin Miller, COO Tech, investments, efficiency, patient experience, underpayment recovery, and coding automation are some of the themes that will drive the revenue cycle market momentum in 2022 and beyond. In 2022, we anticipate the continuance of these trends and mega-mergers will be more of a norm than an aberration.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare providers, health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and business associates of those entities that come into contact with protected health information (PHI) are required to ensure policies, processes, and people are compliant with the Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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AIHC

JANUARY 5, 2022

Written by: Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, COCAS, CORCM, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS As a result of the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act, several No Surprises Billing Act regulations went into effect on January 1, 2022, for providers, facilities and air ambulance services.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

MARCH 23, 2024

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On December 15, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced that Health Specialists of Central Florida, Inc., will pay $20,000 to resolve alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and [.]

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Compared to Qualtrics 2022 trends data, patient trust for providers increased by 1% and their likelihood to recommend providers was down by 1%. The company also surveyed more than 7,000 consumers across 28 countries about their health insurance experiences and compared the data.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

states to live in for health and health care are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maryland… Those are the top health system rankings in the new 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance annual report from the Commonwealth Fund. The best U.S.

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Bill of Health

MAY 19, 2022

2022 Apr;40(4):465-471. 2022 Apr 1;182(4):418-425. 2022 Apr 1;5(4):e227958. 2022 Apr 15. 2022 Apr 19. 2022 Apr 8;12(4):e058279. Value Health. 2022 Apr 26:S1098-3015(22)00154-1. 2022 Apr 28:e220864. 2022 Apr 1;5(4):e226479. 2022 Apr 5. 2022 Apr 18. Nat Biotechnol.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

household budgets in February 2022, highlighted in a poll from Morning Consult : inflationary spikes for housing, food, and energy, and the COVID-19 Omicron variant forcing health care costs up for some consumers driving medical debt up. in January 2022. in January 2022. across the U.S.; more granularly, $4.83

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COVID-19 Health Insurance Medicaid Medicaid 56

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

receive health insurance through employers. With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. One in two people in the U.S.

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MRO Compliance

DECEMBER 22, 2022

December 12, 2022. The letters stand for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The term originated with the federal law of the same name, which created a national standard to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without a patient’s knowledge or consent.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2022

As IoT devices continue to transform how we live and work, the global digital health market is expected to swell to a $158 billion valuation in 2022. Today, we’re seeing an increasing number of new Internet of Things health devices being developed for the consumer market, including fitness bands, scales, blood pressure cuffs and more.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A security breach was identified by Conifer in late March, with the investigation determining several Microsoft 365 had been accessed by unauthorized individuals between March 17 and March 22, 2022. CFA was informed about the breach on June 23, 2022. Patients started to be notified on November 23, 2022.

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Health Insurance HIPAA Licensing 111

HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Valle de Sol did not state in its notification letters when hackers gained access to its network, or for how long they had access, but did confirm that the unauthorized activity was detected on January 25, 2022. A comprehensive review was conducted of all files that may have been accessed, which was completed on July 18, 2022.

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Health Insurance Licensing Fraud HIPAA 118

Kaiser Health News

APRIL 16, 2024

The push began after March 2022, when a special enrollment period for low-income people became available, opening up a year-round opportunity to enroll in an ACA plan. Some consumers were switched multiple times or had duplicative policies.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 9, 2021

That sizable mountain of cash offers myriad opportunities for innovation in 2022 and beyond. To get an idea of what this future may hold, Healthcare IT News interviewed Sebastian Seiguer, CEO of the Johns Hopkins-backed health IT company emocha Health. How can health IT help mitigate such loss?

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C&M Health Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (“HHS”), and the Treasury (the “Tri-agencies”) released their 2022 annual report to Congress on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“MHPAEA”) on Tuesday, January 25. The 2022 annual report is only the beginning of the post-2021 CAA era.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The extent to which protected health information has been compromised is not yet known. Notifications were issued on November 14, 2022. According to the STAR substitute breach notice, the breach was detected in September 2022. California Health Insurance Agency Suffers Data Breach Affecting 14,600 Patients.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2023

A lawsuit has been filed against the digital marketing agency, Rise Interactive Media & Analytics, over a cyberattack in which the protected health information of approximately 54,500 patients of Edgepark Medical Supplies was compromised.

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