May 17, 2022
MARI DEVEREAUX
Despite the risks posed by COVID-19, hospitals continued to perform eight common, low-value procedures during the first year of the pandemic at a rate similar to 2019, according to a Lown Institute analysis published Tuesday.
May 03, 2022
MAYA GOLDMAN
ALEX KACIK
Striking down Roe v. Wade would disrupt healthcare providers’ operations and increase their legal liability, lawyers and policy experts said.
April 28, 2022
Mari Devereaux & Maya Goldman
Medicare Advantage insurers could soon see more oversight of prior authorization practices.
April 20, 2022
MAYA GOLDMAN
The portal to file surprise billing independent dispute resolution claims opened on Friday, but there’s a chance the process through which claims are resolved could shift in the coming months.
April 15, 2022
LISA GILLESPIE
Hospitals appear to be skirting federal requirements to report clinician malpractice or hospital privilege revocations to a national database designed to keep patients safe.
March 31, 2022
MAYA GOLDMAN
The American Medical Association and more than 30 other medical groups want the Health Resources and Services Administration to give providers more time to report on the Provider Relief Funds dollars they received before the government takes the money back.
March 25, 2022
MAYA GOLDMAN
The federal government will intervene in a False Claims Act lawsuit against electronic health records vendor Modernizing Medicine and its co-founders that became public Friday.
March 23, 2022
NONA TEPPER
A federal appeals court on Tuesday reversed a landmark decision that required the nation’s largest behavioral health insurer to adopt more stringent standards for mental health and substance abuse treatment and reprocess tens of thousands of claims.
March 17, 2022
Throughout 2020 and 2021, hackers have targeted the health care industry seeking unauthorized access to valuable electronic protected health information (ePHI).
March 10, 2022
JESSIE HELLMANN
Critical-access hospitals warn that they will no longer be able to bill Medicare for telehealth services when the public health emergency ends after they were excluded from the government spending bill that the U.S. House of Representatives passed Wednesday.
