The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), today released the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health...
A global internet outage which began Friday continues to impact many hospitals as well as banking and transportation sectors. On Friday, a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide, affecting financial institutions, media companies, government...
The Biden administration announced the termination of a program that provided more than $2.55 billion in accelerated and advance Medicare payments to over 4,200 providers (hospitals and physicians) that suffered cash flow disruptions following the Change Healthcare...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added 76 new items and deleted three from its master list of durable medical equipment (DME), prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies. CMS may require physicians to submit prior authorizations or written orders and...
That drawer or cabinet of old medications can be dangerous. However, it’s hard to know what to do with expired medications or medications that you or a loved one no longer takes. Flushing them down the toilet is a bad idea and throwing them in the trash is not a good...
