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CMS, HHS can use existing federal authority to regulate AI safety in hospitals: JAMA

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 30, 2024

As artificial intelligence rapidly makes inroads in healthcare, federal agencies already have the authority to regulator AI at the hospital bedside, according to some healthcare researche | An article published in JAMA Health Forum argues that through the conditions of participation in Medicare and Medicaid, CMS has the authority to oversee how hospitals (..)

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New York State proposes new cybersecurity regulations for hospitals

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

New York has proposed a slew of new cybersecurity regulations for the state’s hospitals and plans to funnel $500 million from its FY24 budget to help facilities upgrade their technology systems, Go | Should its proposal be finalized, the Empire State will give hospitals a year and access to a $500 million fund to bring their facilities into compliance. (..)

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New York proposes ‘nation-leading’ hospital cybersecurity regulations

Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The rules, which would require facilities to develop response plans and hire a chief information security officer, aim to safeguard hospitals from growing threats and keep them operating during an attack.

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Limiting hospital price regulation to concentrated markets would miss the worst offenders

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Limiting hospital price regulation to concentrated markets would miss the worst offenders. Mon, 09/13/2021 - 12:28.

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Regulators warn hospitals and telehealth companies about privacy risks of Meta, Google tracking tech

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 21, 2023

Federal regulators are warning hospital systems and telehealth providers about the data privacy risks of using third-party tracking technologies.

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Hospital orgs join cross-industry appeal for FTC to delay noncompete ban implementation

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MAY 28, 2024

Hospital lobbies have signed onto a multi-sector letter of 230 industry associations and chambers of commerce urging the Federal Trade Commission to bump the effective date of its ban on employee n | The American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals are among 230 groups urging the regulator to put the final rule on hold pending (..)

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Regulators propose outpatient pay increase, but hospitals say it's not enough

Health Care Dive

JULY 18, 2022

"A much higher update is warranted," the American Hospital Association said in a statement citing increased inflation.

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Hospital M&A studies highlight higher prices, tepid antitrust intervention

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2024

Both painted an unflattering picture of post-merger prices and were refuted by the hospital lobby.

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How Providers Are Turning The Home Into A Hospital

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Research has indicated that patients needing care prefer to receive it in their homes rather than in a hospital setting. Health care models like Hospital at Home (HaH) facilitate this preference, but how do providers ensure that patients’ homes are safe for delivering these services? Do you have running water and electricity?

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CMS issues first price transparency fines to 2 Georgia hospitals

Health Care Dive

JUNE 9, 2022

Regulators have been criticized for moving slowly to enforce the rules, which came into effect January last year amid fierce opposition from hospital groups.

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In 2025, look for more digital-first patient engagement and data-driven decisions

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Hospitals and health systems have been discussing digital-first patient engagement for a while now, but fewer organizations than you might think have made huge strides forward on that front. You cite digital-first patient engagement as a major issue for hospitals and health systems in 2025.

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Lawmakers introduce bipartisan legislation addressing workplace violence in hospitals — again

Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Despite widespread support from healthcare workers and hospital associations, federal regulations protecting hospital workers have previously failed to advance in Congress.

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Hospitals, medical groups push back on ONC's 'excessive' and 'overly punitive' data blocking penalties

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2024

Hospitals and clinician groups are pushing back on federal regulators' proposal to enforce data blocking rules, arguing that the penalties are "excessive," "unfair" and will discourage participatio | Hospitals and medical groups are pushing back on federal regulators' proposal to enforce data blocking rules, arguing that (..)

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FTC opposes Indiana’s first hospital merger under controversial COPA law

Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Federal antitrust regulators are asking Indiana to block Union Hospital and HCA-owned Terre Haute Regional Hospital’s request for a certificate of public advantage, which allows states to greenlight potentially problematic mergers.

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Indiana health system withdraws merger application after regulator pushback

Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Union Health said it would submit a new Certificate of Public Advantage application to try to acquire Terre Haute Regional Hospital.

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CMS finalizes 2024 Medicare hospital, doctor payments, 340B fix and price transparency requirements

Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Regulators finalized a number of rules Thursday with sweeping implications for providers in the Medicare program, including rates for next year that doctors and hospitals slammed as insufficient.

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New rural hospital designation still needs tweaks and more flexibility, stakeholders say

Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Rural providers are weighing whether to switch to a new payment model as federal regulators aim to curb hospital closures.

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FTC opposes Novant Health's $320M hospital deal with Community Health Systems

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 25, 2024

Regulators are pumping the brakes on Novant Health’s deal to buy two North Carolina hospitals from Community Health Systems (CHS), citing concerns of higher healthcare costs and little incentive fo | The transaction for Lake Norman Regional Medical Center, Davis Regional Medical Center and other assets would give Novant Health 65% control of the inpatient (..)

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HHS OIG backs nixing capital cost exemption for new hospitals

Health Care Dive

AUGUST 17, 2021

An HHS watchdog says Medicare could see significant cost savings if regulators did away with the carveout. Currently, new facilities help pay for their capital costs through a special exemption.

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Kaiser, Mayo, Medically Home found coalition to promote advanced hospital-at-home services

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A group of healthcare organizations announced this week the launch of the Advanced Care at Home Coalition, an advocacy effort aimed at creating a pathway toward safeguarding access to hospital-level services. The coalition's perspective, he said, is that regulators should "put guardrails on, but let us continue the good work."

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Washington state bill seeks to regulate hospital mergers, care access

Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Washington state Senate advanced legislation Thursday that grants the state attorney authority to deny mergers that may limit healthcare access.

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After Steward crisis, new Massachusetts law aims to strengthen oversight of hospitals

Health Care Dive

JANUARY 10, 2025

The law aims to close loopholes that officials say Steward Health Care exploited to keep regulators in the dark about its finances leading up to its bankruptcy.

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FTC, OCR send warning letter to hospitals about online tracking pixels

Healthcare It News

JULY 21, 2023

They go on to describe how integrated tools on hospital and telemedicine websites can not only send PHI information directly back, but third parties like Google and Meta/Facebook may continue to track and gather information about patients even after they navigate away. tracking technology vendors) includes PHI.

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AHA moves to shift cost blame to health plans in letter to antitrust regulators

Health Care Dive

AUGUST 19, 2021

The letter included an updated AHA-funded study on the benefits of hospital mergers, which was previously criticized by outside experts for cherry-picked data, among other methodological weaknesses.

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‘As fast as possible but no faster than is safe’: Hospitals, tech companies confront AI governance

Health Care Dive

MARCH 18, 2024

Regulators seeking to erect guardrails around AI are facing a Sisyphean task, experts said at HIMSS. How do you oversee something that is constantly changing?

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Novant’s proposed purchase of CHS hospitals ‘irreversibly’ harms competition, FTC says

Health Care Dive

MARCH 29, 2024

The FTC filed for a preliminary injunction this week to block the deal, but an expert says the antitrust agency’s efforts to regulate such deals are akin to trying to stop a “ball that’s already rolling downhill.”

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Code Red: Healthcare Cybersecurity in a Post-Chevron World

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This provided agencies with broad discretion to create and enforce regulations that often filled gaps left by legislators. Implications for Cybersecurity in Healthcare Vulnerability of Existing Regulations The immediate impact of this ruling is the increased vulnerability of existing cybersecurity regulations to legal challenges.

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FTC sues to block John Muir Health’s acquisition of Tenet hospital

Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Regulators allege the $142.5 million deal to buy the remaining stake in San Ramon Regional Medical Center would further reduce competition and drive up prices.

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Massachusetts lawmakers tell FTC, DOJ to take hard stance on Optum-Steward deal

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 9, 2024

All 11 of Massachusetts’ federal legislators are calling on regulators to keep a short leash on UnitedHealth Group’s proposed acquisition of Steward Health Care’s physician group, even if that mean | The financial jeopardy of Steward's remaining hospitals can't override the long-term cost and quality harms that would likely follow UnitedHealth (..)

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States with robust merger reviews are tougher on hospital tie-ups, study suggests

Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Just eight states challenged the majority of the deals that regulators scrutinized during a 10-year time period. Still, it did little to slow price increases, according to new research in Health Affairs.

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FTC sues to block Rhode Island's largest health systems from merging

Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Regulators allege a union between Lifespan and Care New England would increase prices and diminish quality as the combined system would control at least 70% of the state's hospital market.

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Citing lax enforcement, senators ramp up scrutiny of nonprofit hospitals' tax exemptions

Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 8, 2023

A bipartisan quartet of influential senators are tapping tax regulators within the U.S. | A bipartisan group of senators sent requests to federal tax agencies and regulators for information on what currently passes muster as a "community benefit."

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Hospitals massively mark up cancer therapy prices for private insurance patients, JAMA study finds

Health Care Dive

APRIL 19, 2022

Researchers also found that most National Cancer Institute-designated facilities did not publicly disclose payer-specific prices for cancer therapies as required by federal price transparency regulations.

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5G will power the next evolutionary stage of healthcare in APAC

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

"Wi-Fi is still a local network – it is only [usable] within the hospital itself regardless of how fast [the speed]. " Do digitally native hospitals have an edge over traditional hospitals when adopting 5G? "We [the government] need to set up regulation infrastructures [for 5G adoption].

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Steward will lay off more than 1,200 workers in Massachusetts

Health Care Dive

AUGUST 5, 2024

The bankrupt health system will lay off workers at the end of the month as it prepares to close two hospitals in the state, according to notices filed with regulators last week.

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CMS proposes 2.6% payment increase for inpatient hospitals next year

Health Care Dive

APRIL 11, 2024

Regulators said payments to hospitals would increase $3.2 However, the American Hospital Association called the hike “woefully inadequate.” billion in 2025 under the proposed rule.

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Here’s what you need to know about the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A House vote on transparency regulations in healthcare could occur next week, potentially having substantial ramifications on how PBMs and hospitals operate. | Bipartisan anticipation is in the air for a potential vote in the House this week that would bring transparency to PBMs and ban spread pricing in Medicaid, but hospital groups are firmly opposed (..)

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Congress reaches spending deal with doc pay bump, delayed DSH cuts and more

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 4, 2024

A bipartisan spending bill unveiled Sunday narrows some of this year’s cuts to physician Medicare pay, pushes back scheduled disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payment cuts and increases annual | A 1,050-page bill unveiled Sunday included several key lobbying focuses for providers but excludes other hot-button topics like potential pharmacy benefit (..)

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LCMC ordered by judge not to close HCA-acquired hospitals as legal battle continues

Health Care Dive

APRIL 25, 2023

LCMC Health and regulators have filed dueling court requests over whether state acquisition approval preempts federal antitrust review in LCMC’s acquisition of three facilities from HCA.

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FTC cannot block $320M Novant, CHS deal

Health Care Dive

JUNE 6, 2024

A federal court struck a blow to antitrust regulators on Wednesday when it ruled that Novant’s purchase of two hospitals from CHS could go through, arguing the deal seems likely to promote competition in North Carolina.

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CHS hit with Justice Department investigation

Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Federal regulators are seeking information about the for-profit hospital operator's inpatient admissions and dialysis processes and procedures.

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Providence’s Joint Venture With Compassus Likely Delayed Amid Concerns About Patient Care And Rural Access

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The program also empowers state regulators to impose conditions on acquisitions and mergers or reject deals they find anti-competitive. I am concerned that Providence is trying to structure a joint venture that avoids its obligations as a non-profit, tax-exempt hospital, Goldberg wrote.

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Prospect Medical wants to to sell its Rhode Island hospitals to the Centurion Foundation

Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

State regulators approved a deal to sell the hospitals months ago. However, Prospect said in court filings it couldn’t afford to carry out the attorney general’s hefty closing conditions.

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Verizon Business and Visionable team up to empower next generation healthcare with 5G

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These environments will showcase the end-to-end care pathway from smart ambulances, control centres, hospital wards, General Practices (GPs) consultation rooms to care homes. The service harnesses the adaptability of mobile devices to allow doctors and hospitals to provide more virtual visits and consultations. WHY IT MATTERS.

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CMS, HHS can use existing federal authority to regulate AI safety in hospitals: JAMA

New York State proposes new cybersecurity regulations for hospitals

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New York proposes ‘nation-leading’ hospital cybersecurity regulations

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Limiting hospital price regulation to concentrated markets would miss the worst offenders

Regulators warn hospitals and telehealth companies about privacy risks of Meta, Google tracking tech

Hospital orgs join cross-industry appeal for FTC to delay noncompete ban implementation

Regulators propose outpatient pay increase, but hospitals say it's not enough

Hospital M&A studies highlight higher prices, tepid antitrust intervention

How Providers Are Turning The Home Into A Hospital

CMS issues first price transparency fines to 2 Georgia hospitals

In 2025, look for more digital-first patient engagement and data-driven decisions

Lawmakers introduce bipartisan legislation addressing workplace violence in hospitals — again

Hospitals, medical groups push back on ONC's 'excessive' and 'overly punitive' data blocking penalties

FTC opposes Indiana’s first hospital merger under controversial COPA law

Indiana health system withdraws merger application after regulator pushback

CMS finalizes 2024 Medicare hospital, doctor payments, 340B fix and price transparency requirements

New rural hospital designation still needs tweaks and more flexibility, stakeholders say

FTC opposes Novant Health's $320M hospital deal with Community Health Systems

HHS OIG backs nixing capital cost exemption for new hospitals

Kaiser, Mayo, Medically Home found coalition to promote advanced hospital-at-home services

Washington state bill seeks to regulate hospital mergers, care access

After Steward crisis, new Massachusetts law aims to strengthen oversight of hospitals

FTC, OCR send warning letter to hospitals about online tracking pixels

AHA moves to shift cost blame to health plans in letter to antitrust regulators

‘As fast as possible but no faster than is safe’: Hospitals, tech companies confront AI governance

Novant’s proposed purchase of CHS hospitals ‘irreversibly’ harms competition, FTC says

Code Red: Healthcare Cybersecurity in a Post-Chevron World

FTC sues to block John Muir Health’s acquisition of Tenet hospital

Massachusetts lawmakers tell FTC, DOJ to take hard stance on Optum-Steward deal

States with robust merger reviews are tougher on hospital tie-ups, study suggests

FTC sues to block Rhode Island's largest health systems from merging

Citing lax enforcement, senators ramp up scrutiny of nonprofit hospitals' tax exemptions

Hospitals massively mark up cancer therapy prices for private insurance patients, JAMA study finds

5G will power the next evolutionary stage of healthcare in APAC

Steward will lay off more than 1,200 workers in Massachusetts

CMS proposes 2.6% payment increase for inpatient hospitals next year

Here’s what you need to know about the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act

Congress reaches spending deal with doc pay bump, delayed DSH cuts and more

LCMC ordered by judge not to close HCA-acquired hospitals as legal battle continues

FTC cannot block $320M Novant, CHS deal

CHS hit with Justice Department investigation

Providence’s Joint Venture With Compassus Likely Delayed Amid Concerns About Patient Care And Rural Access

Prospect Medical wants to to sell its Rhode Island hospitals to the Centurion Foundation

Verizon Business and Visionable team up to empower next generation healthcare with 5G

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