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Risk Management

By Jack McCarthy | 09:13 am | February 07, 2017
The Giants player filed the lawsuit last year after Schefter, an ESPN reporter, tweeted out a picture of the football player's hospital records following a firework accident.
By Susan Morse | 04:10 pm | February 06, 2017
Balance billing undermines competition between health plans and particularly harms plans offering narrower network products, authors say.
By Jessica Davis | 11:06 am | February 02, 2017
OCR penalized hospital for HIPAA noncompliance and two thefts of unencrypted devices in 2010 and 2013.
By Jeff Lagasse | 10:52 am | February 02, 2017
MACRA gives specialists ability to reap reimbursement benefits tied to high quality, study says.
By Susan Morse | 04:44 pm | January 30, 2017
Vizient survey finds 89.5 percent of hospital executives said protection of patients with pre-existing conditions must be kept.
By Jessica Davis | 04:04 pm | January 20, 2017
Hacker infiltrated database of Cancer Services of East Central Indiana-Little Red Door, wiped data from server, demanded payment to not release.
By Susan Morse | 04:20 pm | January 16, 2017
The infection was resistant to all available 27 antimicrobial drugs, the CDC said.
By Susan Morse | 03:05 pm | January 13, 2017
Daniel Neides, a system doctor who published an anti-vaccine statement, will be disciplined, CEO says.
By Jeff Lagasse | 12:13 pm | January 11, 2017
Health Affairs report suggests these hospitals discharged to skilled nursing facilities more effectively or did a better job at targeting at-risk patients.
By Bernie Monegain | 12:20 pm | January 10, 2017
Office for Civil Rights said the Presence suit marks the first HIPAA enforcement action imposed on a provider for lack of timely breach notification.