A website error on Health-e-Arizona Plus, the eligibility portal for the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, revealed the name address, and last four digits of 2,632 Medicaid members' social security numbers on May 11, 2023.
In the first six months of 2023, more than 39 million Americans were impacted by breaches of...
Recent data breaches of unsecured protected health information(PHI) were announced by Integrated Medical Services (IMS) and UnitedHealthcare (UHC).
The IMS breach was reported April 17 and affected about 6,600, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. On April 10, UnitedHealthcare also...
As cyberattacks on healthcare providers and industry services continue into 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it reached a $1.25 million settlement with Banner Health following a federal probe into a 2016 data breach that disclosed the protected health information of 2.81 million...
Industry stakeholders and patient advocacy organizations are urging Congress to pass legislation that would solidify telehealth waivers passed by the CARES Act during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).
The vast majority of providers see telehealth as an opportunity to improve patient services and 94% of patients who have had...
A Pima County judge is expected to deliver a ruling this week in a case seeking to reinstate a 158-year-old abortion ban, which was previously blocked by Roe v. Wade in 1973.
The law conflicts with a more recent law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks, including pregnancies from rape or incest, that would go into effect this...
Aetna has agreed to pay $1 million to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It will also adopt a corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules.
June 2017: Aetna submitted a breach...News
Three major hospital groups penned a letter, addressed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urging Congress to suspend the mandated Medicare sequester for the duration of the pandemic.
Established by the Budget Control Act in 2011, the federal sequester cuts government spending by more than $1 trillion for the 2021 fiscal year and it would...National News
HHS Secretary Alex Azar says current interpretations of the two privacy laws…are not just impeding value-based arrangements in healthcare. They can also get in the way of communities and families working together to combat our country’s crisis of opioid addiction, another top priority for President Trump.
Azar made the comments...
For patients without smartphones, staffers at participating physicians' offices can schedule their rides for immediate pickup or dropoff up to 30 days in advance.
Rather than operating through an app, Uber Health will send passengers their ride information via text message. Drivers, however, will still locate and pick up riders...
The window of an informational letter revealed personal health information, including HIV status.
Customers were affected in Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.
Legal Action Center and the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania immediately engaged Aetna with a...