--- title: June 27, 2024 Customer Newsletter description: Telehealth Turned Pill Mill, Celebrate with Savings, Med School Revenues on the Up and Up, Hacks and Cyber Attacks image: https://challengercme.com/hubfs/nl%20pic.png --- [![Med-Challenger-green-logo-1024x244](https://challengercme.com/hubfs/Med-Challenger-green-logo-1024x244.webp) ](https://challengercme.com/) - [SHOP EXAM PREP & CME ](https://challengercme.com/blog/june-27-2024-customer-newsletter-#) ### [EMERGENCY MEDICINE](https://challengercme.com/emergency-medicine-exam-review-cme-course) [ABEM exam prep](https://challengercme.com/emergency-medicine-exam-review-cme-course), [MyEMCert](https://challengercme.com/emergency-medicine-myemcert-exam-review-course), etc. ### [FAMILY MEDICINE](https://challengercme.com/family-medicine-exam-review-cme-course) [ABFM exam prep](https://challengercme.com/family-medicine-exam-review-cme-course), [ABFM KSA](https://challengercme.com/family-medicine-moc-ksa-course), etc. ### [INTERNAL MEDICINE ABIM exam prep, MOC points, etc.](https://challengercme.com/internal-medicine-exam-review-cme-course) ### [OBGYN ABOG exam prep, CREOG, etc.](https://challengercme.com/obgyn-exam-review-cme-course) ### [PEDIATRICS ABP exam prep, MOCA-PEDS, etc.](https://challengercme.com/pediatric-medicine-exam-review-cme-course) ### [PEDIATRIC EM](https://challengercme.com/pediatric-emergency-medicine-3rd-edition) [ABP/ABEM exam prep Ed.3](https://challengercme.com/pediatric-emergency-medicine-3rd-edition), [Ed.2](https://challengercme.com/pediatric-emergency-medicine-pack2), etc. ### [SPECIAL PURPOSE / SPEX FSMB exam prep, etc.](https://challengercme.com/special-purpose-exam-review-spex-exam-preparation-course) ### [PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT](https://challengercme.com/physician-assistant-exam-review-cme-course) [PANCE / PANRE](https://challengercme.com/physician-assistant-exam-review-cme-course), [CAQ-EM](https://challengercme.com/pa-caq-em-review-course), etc ### [NURSE PRACTITIONER](https://challengercme.com/family-nurse-practitioner-exam-review-cme-course) [FNP](https://challengercme.com/family-nurse-practitioner-exam-review-cme-course), [ENP](https://challengercme.com/emergency-nurse-practitioner-exam-review-cne-course), [AGNP](https://challengercme.com/adult-gerontology-nurse-practitioner-exam-review-cne-course), [PNCB/CPNP](https://challengercme.com/pediatric-nurse-practitioner-exam-review-cne-course), etc. ### [NURSING / NCLEX NCLEX, CNE, etc.](https://challengercme.com/nursing-certification-nclex-exam-review-cne-courses) ### [STATE-REQUIRED CME / CE State CME requirements, etc.](https://challengercme.com/state-required-cme) ### [JOINT COMMISSION CME](https://challengercme.com/stroke-center-ce-review-course) [Stroke](https://challengercme.com/stroke-center-ce-review-course), [Cardiac](https://challengercme.com/cardiac-center-ce-review-course), [Trauma](https://challengercme.com/trauma-center-ce-review-course), [ALS](https://challengercme.com/advanced-life-support-and-resuscitation-center-ce-review-course), etc. ### [PROFESSIONALISM CME Professionalism review with CME](https://challengercme.com/professionalism-review-course) ### [DERMATOLOGY CME Dermatology review with CME](https://challengercme.com/dermatology-review-course) ### [USMLE STEP 2CK / STEP 3 USMLE exam prep, etc.](https://challengercme.com/usmle-certification-exam-review-clerkship-exams-shelf-exam-review) - [INSTITUTIONS ](https://challengercme.com/atlas-pro-inst) - [BLOG ](https://challengercme.com/blog) - [SUPPORT ](https://support.challengercme.com/knowledge) [SIGN IN ](https://fuse.challengercme.com/sign-in?redirectURL=%2Fuserdash) # June 27, 2024 Customer Newsletter Telehealth Turned Pill Mill, Celebrate with Savings, Med School Revenues on the Up and Up, Hacks and Cyber Attacks [ Challenger Corporation ](https://challengercme.com/blog/author/challenger-corporation) Jun 27, 2024 ### < [All Posts](https://challengercme.com/blog) Try Med-Challenger Start a free trial today and save! 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It’s probably a bad time to mention the Amazon ad I received about private consultations for sensitive medical conditions. Telehealth can be a vital part of medical treatment, especially when patients have limited mobility, or an office visit is not required to discuss lab results or conduct follow-up.  But some of the easy money in medicine is in controlling prescriptions, and that’s where too many of the overfunded telehealth VC startups are migrating. The scattered insurance and reimbursement policies for telehealth, especially in mental health, aren’t helping. 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The indirect costs in lost time and fixing books and records will be extensive too. Then there are the patient problems caused by knocking out half the country’s prior authorization and payment systems. It wasn’t a sophisticated attack, no matter what the various hearings and pronouncements have said. The hacking group pretended to be “with IT” and basically called around asking for login credentials. They got away with a $22 million ransom payment and 6 terabytes of patient data. There are a lot of lessons to be learned; perhaps the most important is why active connections, downloads, and data access weren’t controlled. In what world should a node in the gigantic insurance network be able to download one-third of the nation’s healthcare records? Most of the remediation has called for more oversight and centralization, which is exactly how we ended up here. But here you go, a four-month-later retrospective. 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