Supplemental Medicaid payments drive hospitals to seek out enrollees as patients
An increasing push by states to boost Medicaid funding has led some health systems to change their views on the program to the point of now seeking its enrollees as patients. Mississippi, Nevada and North Carolina were the most recent states to obtain approval for supplemental Medicaid payments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
Health systems adopting AI face growing cyberthreats, according to study
Health systems are pushing to adopt AI in a range of patient-facing, clinical and back-office functions. But the new technology can increase cyberthreats, says emerging research. Attacks on 2,000 generative AI (GenAI) models succeed 20% of the time in performing so-called jailbreak attacks, according to recent research by Pillar Security, a GenAI security firm. Jailbreak…
Medicare Advantage turmoil could allow new arrangements
Amid a roiling 2025 Medicare Advantage (MA) market, health systems may have new opportunities to change payment dynamics with them.