Category: Modern Healthcare

In the largest HIPAA settlement ever, Anthem will pay the federal government $16 million over its 2015 data breach that affected nearly 79 million people.

Healthcare experts widely expected the Affordable Care Act to hobble Medicare Advantage. But Since 2010, enrollment in Medicare Advantage has doubled to more than 20 million enrollees, growing from a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries to more than a…

Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s top health official and vocal Medicaid expansion critic Mary Mayhew has been named as the director of Medicaid and CHIP at the CMS.

The CMS released a proposed rule that would require drugmakers to list prices for their drugs in their consumer advertising.

The Kentucky Hospital Association launched a program allowing hospitals to share patient information so they can better coordinate care for babies born with withdrawal symptoms from opioids.

The four men and their companies were indicted for attempting to defraud insurers by overbilling for various prescriptions.

While healthcare construction projects haven’t been delayed or canceled yet, providers are asking construction companies how they should rethink their projects and designs to minimize costs.

More than 4,100 Medicaid expansion enrollees in Arkansas will lose coverage for the rest of 2018 because they did not comply with the state’s work requirement. That’s on top of the 4,353 people who were dropped last month.

Detroit Medical Center faces a surprise quality inspection that could happen any time from state and federal regulators, according to officials from the Chicago office of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Michigan Department of…

A jury in federal court in Port Huron, Mich., unanimously said Tuesday that Pontiac General Hospital breached a contract with the Canadian parents of an international medical school graduate who paid $400,000 believing their son would be accepted…