This week’s Medicare updates include a final rule on the IOTA model’s second performance year, download instructions for the latest hospice PEPPER, and more!
A new national cyber strategy places hospitals squarely inside the country’s critical infrastructure defense posture, elevating cybersecurity from an IT concern to what many healthcare leaders now view as a patient safety and operational continuity issue.
Denials are exposing operational weaknesses that extend far beyond reimbursement, and hospitals can no longer afford to treat them as an unavoidable cost of doing business.
The Office of the Inspector General announced it is launching a new audit of evaluation and management services billed on the same day as minor procedures.
Recent data shows that health systems pulled back on acute care electronic health record (EHR) system purchasing in 2025 as part of a larger trend of organizations becoming more selective about large-scale replacement decisions.
