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A far-right Ukrainian group recently hacked an Ohio urology group. On August 2, screenshots of protected health information (PHI) and a link to a Google Drive folder containing an additional 150 GB of PHI and financial and human resource data belonging to Central Ohio Urology Group were posted to the Twitter page of a group claiming allegiance with Pravy Sektor, a right-wing political group based in Ukraine.

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CMS proposes to define the applicable payment system for “nonexcepted” services under Section 603 to be the MPFS, but they state in the proposed rule they have no way for hospitals to bill for “nonexcepted” services under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2017.

This week’s Medicare updates include an update to inpatient psychiatric facilities PPS (IPF PPS) FY 2017; a Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) region announcement; and more!

Q: Our infusion department provides drug administration services with a physician’s order. Sometimes, the protocol includes an infusion that will run for a day or two. The company that supplies our pumps wants to bill us for the use because they say they can’t bill the insurance company–especially Medicare.

The American Case Management Association and National Board of Case Management recently completed the 2016 Case Manager Practice Analysis Study to support the Accredited Case Manager credentialing examination, according to a press release.

A Chicago-based healthcare system agreed to the largest HIPAA settlement fine against a single entity, HHS announced August 4. Advocate Health Care Network will pay $5.55 million to settle three separate potential HIPAA breaches.

Acknowledging comments received from providers regarding policies in the 2016 OPPS proposed rule, CMS is proposing for 2017 that procedures with a HCPCS code-level device offset of more than 40% of the APC costs would be designated as device-intensive procedures and subject to those applicable payment policies.

Banner Health, a nonprofit healthcare system based in Phoenix, announced 3.7 million individuals’ data was breached in a hacking incident.