Risk Management

Proposal would eliminate any potential financial pressure clinicians may feel to over-prescribe pain medications, especially opioids.

The new HEDIS technical specifications include four new measures, changes to seven existing measures and one that's been retired altogether.

Theft of a CHCS mobile device compromised the protected health information of hundreds of nursing home residents, according to the federal agency.

Risk adjustment transfers funds from issuers with low risk to plans with high actuarial risk.

A third-party vendor is responsible for the security breach of the protected health information of 4,300 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital.

The new brand offers a single enterprise solution that include analytics, consulting, health information management and revenue cycle management.

However, Medicare Trustees said the 2028 date is 11 years longer than they projected in 2009 before the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Seventy-four percent of primary care physicians and emergency room doctors do not feel their healthcare facility or practice is taking effective steps to address and prevent burnout, according to a new survey by healthcare-centric market intelligence firm InCrowd.

The average global cost of data breach per every lost or stolen record is $158. Healthcare organizations, however, had an average cost of $355 per record, according to the new survey conducted by Ponemon.

Two-thirds of businesses, including organizations in the healthcare industry, wait until a cybersecurity attack before they engage a security vendor or a managed security services provider, according to a recent Ponemon study commissioned by government contractor Raytheon Foreground Security.