A third-party data breach affected 48,879 patients, providers and employees of UCHealth, the Aurora, Colo.-based health system reported.
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CMS allows California prison inmates to receive Medicaid care
CMS will allow Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Plan funds to treat people in prisons, jails and youth correctional facilities for the first time ever in California.
ChatGPT can't be an author, scientific journal editors and publishers say
In the last week, thousands of scientific journals have updated their policies to clarify that ChatGPT — an artificial intelligence chatbot that generates humanlike responses — cannot be listed as an author on research papers. Some have also moved to o…
Electricity company to donate $50 to UPMC for every new customer
Electricity and natural gas supplier NRG will donate $50 for every new electricity customer and $25 for every new natural gas customer to Pittsburgh-based UPMC Children’s Health Foundation after the company selected the health system to be the benefici…
FDA panel votes for bivalent COVID-19 shots, debates 'annual' schedule
All COVID-19 vaccines should be targeted to the original and dominant strains, an FDA advisory panel said Jan. 26, but members debated whether a new modified vaccine every 12 months is optimal.
New York hospitals pushing for Medicaid increase to alleviate staffing woes
Hospitals in upstate New York are pushing for a Medicaid reimbursement rate increase to help combat staffing shortages, Spectrum News 1 reported Jan. 26.
Illinois hospital apologizes for abrupt closure announcement
Hours before St. Margaret’s Health-Peru (Ill.) is scheduled to temporarily close, the hospital issued an apology to employees and the community for the way the news was delivered.
BCBS leans into site-neutral payments
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association released a policy statement backing site-neutral payments as a key focus for saving billions of dollars in the next decade.
Meet the supply chain leaders at US News' 5 top hospitals
The COVID-19 pandemic uprooted the supply chain industry and forced teams to find new approaches to disruptions.
FBI takes down Hive ransomware
The FBI infiltrated notorious ransomware group Hive, which has targeted hospitals across the U.S., according to a report from the Justice Department.
