It is the latest technical problem related to the Trump administration’s push to create a national directory of health ...

The Social Security numbers were exposed in a publicly facing database.

CMS’ Medicare Advantage provider directory exposed healthcare providers’ Social Security numbers, The Washington Post reported April 30. The Post downloaded a public database used to populate the ...

A Medicare portal database unintentionally reveals health providers’ Social Security numbers, prompting confusion among ...

Nearly 1 million Medicare beneficiaries have recently learned that their personal information may have been compromised in a data breach last year. This incident comes on the heels of another incident ...

From spotting care gaps to tracking patient outcomes, public health and clinical datasets are reshaping how rural communities plan services. Tools like CDC’s PLACES map, CMS’s OASIS data, and HRSA’s ...

More than 100,000 individuals may have been impacted by a "data incident" where unauthorized Medicare beneficiary accounts were made using their information. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ge Bai is professor of accounting & health policy at Johns Hopkins. While it remains unclear what CMS will ultimately do, lessons ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root causes of ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unintentionally published Social Security data for at least 100 health ...