Just two days before Google was set to release an expansive set of human chest X-ray images, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) called the tech giant to call it off over privacy concerns, the Washington Post reported. Personal information about the patients in the images were still contained in some of the files and could be used to identify patients, NIH told Google.

This slew of changes—aimed at providing more price transparency to consumers—would take effect on Jan. 1, 2021. 

CMS has finalized a rule that will force hospitals to publish a public list of their standard charges for items and services they provide. The rule was originally proposed to take effect in 2020, but the finalized version won’t require the changes until 2021.

Cleveland Clinic has received its largest gift ever, a $261 million distribution from the Lord Foundation of Ohio, the nonprofit academic medical center disclosed Nov. 13.

A handful of people associated with the White House or President Trump’s transition and campaign were hired as outside contractors to the federal government in contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, Politico reported.

CMS has proposed a new rule intended to increase oversight of the fiscal integrity of the Medicaid program. Specifically, the proposal would increase reporting on supplemental payments, clarify some Medicaid financing definitions and attempt to crack down on questionable financing mechanisms.

As AI technologies have continued to evolve all over the world, it has become more and more evident that proper regulation is necessary.

Medicare Part B premiums will be higher in 2020 than in 2019, while deductibles in Part A, which typically doesn’t have a premium, will also rise, according to CMS.