Senators Bill Cassidy and Maggie Hassan have proposed a ‘site-neutral’ payment reform plan for Medicare. They aim to standardize Medicare’s payment rates for a given service, regardless of the location. This proposal could prevent hospitals from charging more than clinics for the same procedures, potentially saving billions for taxpayers. However, the American Hospital Association warned that it could limit hospital care and increase waiting times, while smaller outfits fear it would harm rural providers.

Ivanti VPN customers targeted via unrecognized RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457)
A suspected Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group exploited CVE-2025-22457, a previously unexploitable buffer overflow bug, to compromise devices running Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and