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HHS Releases Statement on Change Healthcare Cyberattack

March 5, 2024 - HHS released a statement regarding the Change Healthcare cyberattack and shed light on immediate steps that CMS is taking to assist providers during this time. The announcement follows multiple requests from industry groups urging HHS to offer guidance and enforcement discretion to healthcare organizations as the Change Healthcare cyberattack...

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MOVEit Transfer Breach Impacts 612K Medicare Beneficiaries, CMS Says

by Jill McKeon

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) notified 612,000 Medicare beneficiaries of a data breach stemming from a vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer software. The...

CMS Responds to Third-Party Data Breach Impacting 254K Medicare Beneficiaries

by Jill McKeon

UPDATE 12/16/2022 - This article has been updated to include a statement from Healthcare Management Solutions.  A third-party data breach potentially impacted the protected health information...

OIG: Medicare Lacks Oversight of Cybersecurity for Medical Devices

by Jill McKeon

Medicare accreditation organizations (AOs) rarely use their discretion to assess the cybersecurity of networked medical devices through their regular hospital surveys, according to a study conducted by...

FBI, HHS Alert to COVID-19 Vaccine Fraud Schemes Aimed at Data Theft

by Jessica Davis

All private sector organizations should be on the alert for fraud schemes tied to the COVID-19 vaccine, as multiple complaints have been received by the Department of Health and Human Services Office...

Final HHS Rules Provide Safe Harbor for Cybersecurity Tech Donations

by Jessica Davis

The Department of Health and Human Services published two final rules on Friday designed to reduce regulatory barriers and improve care coordination, which both contain safe harbor provisions that will...

OIG Finds Serious Misuse of Medicare Data Transactions by Pharmacies

by Jessica Davis

The Department of Health and Human Service Office of the Inspector General recently discovered widespread inappropriate access and use of Medicare beneficiary data by pharmacies and other healthcare...

AHIP: CMS Price Transparency Proposal Poses Patient Privacy Risk

by Jessica Davis

In November, the Trump Administration rolled out broad transparency rules designed to provide consumers with more insights into how much hospitals charge health insurers for both out-of- and in-network...

HSCC Tells HHS: Include Patching in Stark Law Cybersecurity Donations

by Jessica Davis

The Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed changes to the Physician Self-Referral Law (Stark Law) and the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute should include patching and update language in...

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