August 24, 2025 This week Breach Notifications Cybersecurity Data Privacy Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) Emerging Tech Fraud & Abuse HIPAA Medicare Reimbursement Physician Compensation Breach Notifications Two Texas healthcare facilities disclosed data breaches affecting nearly 10,000 patients combined. Nova Recovery Center in Wimberley detected unauthorized network access on May 25, 2025, which compromised personal information of 7,713 individuals including names, addresses, Social...
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August 24, 2025 This week 330 Grants Data Breach Data Privacy Emerging Tech Fraud & Abuse Gender Care Litigation Physician Compensation Value-Based Reimbursement 330 Grants The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services now classifies the Health Center Program as a “Federal public benefit” under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, restricting non-qualified aliens’ access to most federally funded services at community health centers and federally qualified...
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August 24, 2025 This week Accountable Care Organizations AI Transcription Antitrust Business Entities Compassionate Use Concierge Medicine Data Privacy Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act Fraud & Abuse Medical Debt Medicare Reimbursement Reproductive Rights Skilled Nursing Facilities Accountable Care Organizations Health policy experts anticipate the second Trump administration will revive the Geographic Direct Contracting Model that was suspended by the Biden administration before...
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August 24, 2025 This week Business of Healthcare Clinical Laboratories Cybersecurity & Data Breaches Electronic Health Record Emergency Preparedness Emerging Tech Fraud & Abuse Medicare Reimbursement Mergers & Acquisition Transgender Care Business of Healthcare Healthcare organizations face financial losses from compliance failures, with non-compliance leading to penalties, reputational damage, and operational disruption. The company helped an academic institution save $310,000 using their...
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August 24, 2025 This week Texas Public Emergency OIG Advisory Opinions Cybersecurity Food & Drug Administration Fraud & Abuse Marketing Medicaid No Surprises Act Restrictive Covenants Texas Public Emergency The Department of Health and Human Services has waived certain HIPAA sanctions and penalties for Texas hospitals responding to a public health emergency in Kerr County. President Donald J. Trump signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy,...
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August 24, 2025 This week Emerging Tech Fraud & Abuse Healthcare Privacy Inpatient Rehab Facilities Non-Competes OIG Emerging Tech CMS will launch the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model on January 1, 2026, to combat healthcare fraud through artificial intelligence-enhanced prior authorization processes in Traditional Medicare. The model will focus on services vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse, including skin and tissue substitutes, electrical nerve stimulator...
about 2 months ago • 8 min read
August 24, 2025 This week Cybersecurity Dentists Electronic Health Records Emerging Tech Fraud & Abuse HIPAA Non-Competes Price Transparency Private Equity Cybersecurity Texas has enacted a law that shields small businesses from punitive damages in data breach lawsuits if they maintain compliant cybersecurity programs. Governor Greg Abbott signed S.B. 2610, which applies to businesses with fewer than 250 employees that implement cybersecurity programs containing administrative, technical, and...
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August 24, 2025 This week OIG Advisory Opinions Clinical Trials Corporate Practice of Medicine Cybersecurity Emerging Tech Fair Market Valuations Health Data HIPAA Legislation Private Equity OIG Advisory Opinions The HHS OIG approved a telehealth platform arrangement involving management service organizations and physician corporations. The arrangement allows a management support organization and physician-owned professional corporation to contract with third-party telehealth platforms to...
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August 24, 2025 What's New Accountable Care Organizations Cybersecurity Drugs & Devices EMTALA Fraud & Abuse HIPAA Medicare Med Spas Patient Rights Senior Living Facilities Accountable Care Organizations Hospitals participating in CMS accountable care organizations require more than two years of maturity before seeing improvements in patient care costs and quality, according to a study comparing 121 ACO-participating hospitals with 853 non-participating hospitals from 2010 to 2013....
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