ECRI has named Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Cottage Health the winner of its 2026 Health Technology Excellence Award, the nonprofit patient safety organization announced July 29. The award recognizes an ECRI member for an initiative that improves patient safety, cuts costs…
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Many hospitals have treated price transparency as a one-time task: publish the file, check the box, move on. That era is over. CMS has kept refining its expectations through updated guidance, technical specifications, enforcement actions and expanded validation requirements. In…
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MCBS, a medical billing and revenue cycle management company, has disclosed that a network breach compromised personal and health information belonging to 1.26 million individuals, according to a filing with the HHS Office for Civil Rights. MCBS detected unauthorized access…
From a telemedicine company owner sentenced to prison for a $136 million durable medical equipment fraud scheme, to a medical device maker accused in a Medicare billing scheme, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases that Becker’s has reported since…
In this episode, Bryant Lin, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford, Author of Sunshine: An Exploration of Living When You Are Dying, Director of Medical Humanities and Arts, and Co-Director of the Center for Asian Health Research and Education,…
HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has canceled more than 100 research grants totaling $131.3 million in lost funding, according to data shared by AcademyHealth. AcademyHealth — a nonprofit focused on health services and policy research — launched a…
As the CDC investigates clusters of cyclosporiasis cases, including one multistate outbreak affecting nine states linked to iceberg lettuce, some hospital laboratories are operating 24/7 to match the outbreak’s pace. Between May 1 and July 27, the CDC has confirmed…
Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health is poised to become a 27-hospital, multiregion health system through its proposed partnership with Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health. The organizations signed a nonbinding letter of intent July 22 for Erlanger, a seven-hospital system, to join Prisma.…
Health IT leaders say the skill they can’t find isn’t AI or security alone, it’s someone fluent in both. The job title doesn’t exist on most org charts yet. But two health system IT leaders who spoke with Becker’s point…
CMS will discontinue the Part D premium stabilization program at the end of this year, returning the standalone prescription drug plan market to what the agency called “traditional market conditions.” CMS said July 28 its analysis of 2027 bids indicated…