Compliance & Legal
Catholic health systems and organizations won their case against the Department of Health and Human Services.
The announcement comes after the FTC in June issued a second request for information on the deal.
United allegedly paid the group 30% of the amount the judges determined to be fair; recent cyberattacks are precedent for FBI's mitigation efforts.
The physician organization is strongly urging Congress to stop the 4.5% payment cut scheduled for January 1, 2023.
The clinical workforce must be cyber aware, and the cybersecurity team must become clinically aware, experts say.
The value proposition is making sure everyone is using the same process for cyber risk quantification.
Efficiencies introduced in these policies would save physician practices and hospitals more than $15B over a 10-year period, CMS says.
Best practices include adopting a zero-trust approach, which means no notion of implied trust, says Anand Oswal of Palo Alto Networks.
A three-judge panel in Florida ruled TeamHealth was owed $10.8 million due to underpayments from UHC from 2017 to 2020.
Anita Allen, professor of law and philosophy at University of Pennsylvania, previews her HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum keynote speech and discusses how data sharing is the new health ethic.