1745 articles by Rebecca Pifer

• GOP Medicaid cuts would cause thousands of preventable deaths: study

  June 17, 2025

• Humana’s cautious defense of Medicare Advantage

  June 17, 2025

• Amazon restructures healthcare business

  June 16, 2025

• Cigna launches new generative AI assistant for members

  June 12, 2025

• HHS watchdog accuses CVS Medicare Advantage plan of upcoding

  June 11, 2025

• Addiction treatment center to pay $1.9M to settle allegations it misled consumers

  June 11, 2025

• PBM lobby sues Arkansas over law requiring drug middlemen to sell pharmacies

  June 10, 2025

• Public health scholars ask HHS to reject Georgia Medicaid work requirement extension

  June 6, 2025

• State exchange directors urge Senate to reconsider GOP megabill, citing harm to ACA enrollees

  June 5, 2025

• Appeals court to rehear No Surprises case in bright spot for providers

  June 4, 2025

• Amazon Pharmacy’s PillPack expands to Medicare patients

  June 4, 2025

• HHS staffers sue over ‘hopelessly error-ridden’ layoffs

  June 4, 2025

• Centene sued over alleged ghost network following member’s death

  June 3, 2025

• HHS releases more detailed 2026 budget disclosing scope of cuts

  June 2, 2025

• Providers could lose $770B in revenue if GOP megabill passes

  May 30, 2025

• CVS, Cigna sue Arkansas to overturn new PBM law

  May 30, 2025

• Elevance sues Georgia providers for allegedly gaming No Surprises arbitration

  May 29, 2025

• Democrat appropriators decry lack of spending transparency at HHS

  May 29, 2025

• GLP-1 prescriptions for weight loss are shooting up, despite obstacles

  May 28, 2025

• Trump administration threatens states over Medicaid coverage for undocumented immigrants

  May 28, 2025

• Judge approves Rite Aid pharmacy sales to CVS, Walgreens, others

  May 22, 2025

• Evernorth reaches deals with Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly to cap GLP-1 copays

  May 22, 2025

• CVS names new president of Oak Street Health

  May 22, 2025

• House passes reconciliation bill with massive Medicaid cuts

  May 22, 2025

• Judge denies Florida Blue’s request to bump star ratings

  May 21, 2025

• UnitedHealth downgraded by investment banks

  May 20, 2025

• Judge shuts down drugmakers’ 340B rebate plans, for now

  May 19, 2025

• Rite Aid sells upwards of 1,000 stores to CVS, Walgreens, others

  May 16, 2025

• House committees advance reconciliation text with big impacts on healthcare

  May 15, 2025

• Stopping a ‘moral obscenity’: Senate Judiciary Committee expresses support for PBM reform

  May 14, 2025

• Andrew Witty steps down as UnitedHealth CEO

  May 13, 2025

• House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts including work requirement, provider tax freeze

  May 12, 2025

• Democrats urge Republicans to focus on Medicare Advantage upcoding instead of Medicaid cuts

  May 9, 2025

• Shareholders sue UnitedHealth for obfuscating business impacts from Thompson death

  May 8, 2025

• Health insurers see signs of life in Q1

  May 7, 2025

• Trump releases 2026 budget including heavy healthcare cuts

  May 5, 2025

• Cigna doubles down on GLP-1 support programs with 2 new launches

  May 2, 2025

• DOJ accuses CVS, Humana, Elevance of paying kickbacks to Medicare Advantage brokers

  May 1, 2025

• CVS plans to exit ACA individual exchanges, strikes Wegovy deal with Novo Nordisk

  May 1, 2025

• UnitedHealth names new CEO of Optum

  April 30, 2025

• Humana posts ‘really good’ first quarter on stable medical costs

  April 30, 2025

• Centene raises outlook for revenue — and costs — in 2025

  April 25, 2025

• Molina reports mixed Q1, says Medicaid rates are increasing

  April 24, 2025

• CMS may be angling to reform Medicaid state directed payments

  April 23, 2025

• Elevance brushes off fears of spiking Medicare Advantage costs

  April 22, 2025

• Arkansas passes law banning PBMs from owning pharmacies

  April 21, 2025

• UnitedHealth posts ‘unacceptable’ first quarter, slashes 2025 guidance

  April 17, 2025

• CMS rejects Humana’s Medicare Advantage star ratings appeal

  April 16, 2025

• Cone fully acquires Medicare Advantage plan from Novant

  April 16, 2025

• HHS layoffs may be illegal, legal experts say

  April 15, 2025

• UnitedHealth to enter mediation with DOJ over Amedisys deal

  April 15, 2025

• Medicare proposes 2.4% pay hike for inpatient hospitals next year

  April 14, 2025

• Walgreens shrinks losses as Sycamore take-private deal nears

  April 8, 2025

• Trump’s CMS dramatically raises payments to Medicare Advantage plans

  April 8, 2025

• Trump rejects Biden administration plan to let Medicare cover obesity drugs

  April 7, 2025

• UnitedHealth shareholders withdraw effort to force transparency on coverage denials

  April 7, 2025

• FTC lawsuit against PBMs can move forward after Ferguson rejoins case

  April 4, 2025

• FTC pauses PBM litigation in win for Caremark, Express Scripts, Optum Rx

  April 3, 2025

• ‘A cruel April Fool’s joke’: HHS layoffs characterized by confusion, errors

  April 2, 2025

• HHS begins layoffs in chaotic fashion

  April 1, 2025

• Trump administration to shut down CMS, HHS minority health offices amid restructuring

  March 31, 2025

• ‘Everything is word of mouth’: HHS employees face uncertainty in looming Trump layoffs

  March 28, 2025

• HHS announces sweeping reorganization, including cuts of 10K workers

  March 27, 2025

• DOJ backs up providers in suit against Claritev

  March 26, 2025

• Judge dismisses lawsuit against Wells Fargo over prescription drug costs

  March 26, 2025

• GLP-1s are accelerating spending growth on traditional drugs, Evernorth research finds

  March 25, 2025

• Optum Rx is reforming how it pays pharmacies

  March 21, 2025

• Cigna closes $3.7B sale of Medicare business to HCSC

  March 20, 2025

• Jefferson Health goes out of network for Cigna commercial members following contract spat

  March 19, 2025

• Optum Rx says it will eliminate 10% of prior authorizations

  March 19, 2025

• FTC reiterates opposition to controversial Indiana hospital merger

  March 18, 2025

• Nevada announces intent to award Medicaid contracts

  March 14, 2025

• Google Cloud’s head of healthcare on the state of AI

  March 13, 2025

• Cigna reshuffles C-suite amid rising costs

  March 13, 2025

• Trump administration proposes ACA program integrity rule that would decimate enrollment

  March 11, 2025

• Healthcare tackles AI oversight with no aid from Trump administration

  March 10, 2025

• EHR vendors turn to artificial intelligence to modernize health records

  March 6, 2025

• Could artificial intelligence increase clinician burden?

  March 6, 2025

• Notable’s CMO on building trust in agentic AI

  March 5, 2025

• How rural hospitals, Silicon Valley can head off the AI digital divide

  March 4, 2025

• Microsoft unveils new AI-backed clinical assistant

  March 3, 2025

• Google’s clinical search-and-answer tool can now query images

  March 3, 2025

• Salesforce launches library of ready-made AI tools for healthcare

  Feb. 28, 2025

• CHAI launches registry for health AI model cards

  Feb. 28, 2025

• Medicare Advantage growth slows as UnitedHealthcare nabs members, Humana sheds lives

  Feb. 26, 2025

• Insurers closed out 2024 on shaky footing

  Feb. 25, 2025

• Express Scripts, Caremark, Optum Rx plan to appeal effort to block FTC lawsuit

  Feb. 24, 2025

• FTC case against Caremark, Express Scripts, Optum Rx can move forward, judge rules

  Feb. 20, 2025

• Humana plans to add up to 30 more primary care centers this year

  Feb. 19, 2025

• FTC retains stricter merger guidelines under Trump

  Feb. 19, 2025

• Trump administration slashes funding for ACA navigators

  Feb. 18, 2025

• GOP calls for $1.5T in cuts, much of which could come from healthcare

  Feb. 13, 2025

• Large healthcare companies are redistributing most of their profits to shareholders, study finds

  Feb. 12, 2025

• Humana’s 2024 profit slashed in half amid higher medical spending

  Feb. 11, 2025

• Walgreens offloads more Cencora shares

  Feb. 7, 2025

• Alphabet’s Verily to sell stop-loss insurance unit to Elevance

  Feb. 7, 2025

• New contract wins ding Molina’s earnings outlook for 2025

  Feb. 6, 2025

• Express Scripts, Kroger reach new pharmacy network agreement

  Feb. 5, 2025

• Oscar Health reports first profitable year

  Feb. 5, 2025

• Molina closes ConnectiCare acquisition

  Feb. 4, 2025

• Centene sets itself up for ‘equilibrium’ in 2025

  Feb. 4, 2025

• Cigna to tie executive compensation to customer satisfaction

  Feb. 3, 2025

• Hospitals seek to intervene in J&J lawsuit against HHS to protect valuable drug discounts

  Feb. 3, 2025

• ACA plans denied one-fifth of in-network claims in 2023, KFF finds

  Jan. 31, 2025

• Cigna pledges changes to pharmacy, medical benefits following ‘messy’ close to 2024

  Jan. 30, 2025

• White House rescinds memo pausing federal funding following pushback

  Jan. 29, 2025

• Judge halts Trump freeze on grants as states report healthcare payment portals back online

  Jan. 29, 2025

• Lawmakers report states shut out of Medicaid payment portals following Trump funding freeze

  Jan. 28, 2025

• Trump freezes federal grants with big potential impact on providers, Medicaid

  Jan. 28, 2025

• UnitedHealth names Tim Noel to replace slain insurance CEO

  Jan. 24, 2025

• Elevance’s fourth-quarter profit slashed in half amid higher Medicaid costs

  Jan. 23, 2025

• ACA enrollment breaks records again in 2025

  Jan. 21, 2025

• DOJ sues Walgreens for allegedly filling millions of illegal prescriptions, including opioids

  Jan. 21, 2025

• Welsh Carson agrees to pare back anesthesia market power to avoid new FTC suit

  Jan. 17, 2025

• UnitedHealth reaches record revenue in 2024, though profit falls

  Jan. 16, 2025

• Alignment Healthcare names new president as insurer eyes growth

  Jan. 15, 2025

• CMS expands enforcement power over shady ACA brokers

  Jan. 14, 2025

• FTC releases second report slamming pharmacy benefit managers

  Jan. 14, 2025

• Investors ask UnitedHealth for answers about delayed, denied care

  Jan. 13, 2025

• CMS proposes Medicare Advantage payment hike in 2026

  Jan. 13, 2025

• Walgreens makes progress on turnaround in Q1, though losses grow

  Jan. 10, 2025

• Centene appoints first head of ICHRA products

  Jan. 9, 2025

• Blue Shield of California restructures, launches health services business and names first female CEO

  Jan. 9, 2025

• ACA signups set to smash record at 24M with enrollment continuing

  Jan. 8, 2025

• CVS successfully converts commercial pharmacy contracts to “cost plus” model

  Jan. 8, 2025

• Health insurers will step off the roller coaster in 2025

  Jan. 8, 2025

• UnitedHealth, Amedisys delay close date of $3.3B merger

  Jan. 7, 2025

• Independent Health settles with Justice Department over alleged Medicare Advantage upcoding

  Jan. 3, 2025

• Biden signs funding bill extending telehealth flexibilities, but no relief for doctors — or PBM reform

  Dec. 23, 2024

• Stopgap funding bill includes sweeping PBM reform, preserves telehealth flexibilities

  Dec. 18, 2024

• Former HHS Secretary Tom Price’s vision for the second Trump administration

  Dec. 17, 2024

• Sanofi sues HHS to defend 340B rebate policy

  Dec. 17, 2024

• Centene lobbies Trump administration to preserve Medicaid, ACA following ‘tragic’ year

  Dec. 13, 2024

• Consumers who delayed choosing health insurance cite concerns with Trump administration: survey

  Dec. 11, 2024

• New bipartisan legislation would force insurers, PBMs to sell pharmacy businesses

  Dec. 11, 2024

• Health insurers remove executive bios, images from websites after UnitedHealthcare CEO killing

  Dec. 6, 2024

• Elevance cancels plan to cap anesthesia coverage for surgeries

  Dec. 5, 2024

• Industry condolences, social media vitriol follow UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing

  Dec. 5, 2024

• UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in NYC

  Dec. 4, 2024

• CMS recalculates Medicare Advantage stars for UnitedHealth, Centene

  Dec. 4, 2024

• VillageMD CEO Tim Barry steps down

  Dec. 2, 2024

• CMS proposes new guardrails on Medicare Advantage prior authorizations, marketing

  Nov. 27, 2024

• Sanofi joins J&J, Eli Lilly in proposing 340B rebate model

  Nov. 26, 2024

• Biden administration proposes Medicare, Medicaid coverage of pricey weight loss drugs

  Nov. 26, 2024

• CMS ordered to recalculate UnitedHealthcare’s 2025 MA stars

  Nov. 25, 2024

• UnitedHealth, Cigna, CVS sue FTC over insulin litigation process

  Nov. 20, 2024

• Oak Street Health co-founder departs CVS

  Nov. 20, 2024

• Eli Lilly follows J&J in suing Biden administration over 340B rebates

  Nov. 18, 2024

• Offering health insurance is becoming less lucrative

  Nov. 18, 2024

• Top CMS official urges Trump administration to treat Medicaid with care

  Nov. 14, 2024

• CMS to lower importance of ‘call center’ metric in Medicare Advantage star ratings

  Nov. 14, 2024

• Centene President Ken Fasola to retire next year

  Nov. 13, 2024

• J&J sues federal government for halting 340B rebate plan

  Nov. 13, 2024

• DOJ sues to block UnitedHealth’s $3.3B buy of home health firm Amedisys

  Nov. 12, 2024

• Cigna confirms it is not pursuing Humana acquisition

  Nov. 11, 2024

• MedPAC backs tying physician pay to inflation, but ducks specifics

  Nov. 8, 2024

• How the healthcare industry is reacting to a second Trump term

  Nov. 7, 2024

• CVS appoints new Aetna head following mixed third-quarter results

  Nov. 6, 2024

• MACPAC calls for greater transparency amid steep rise in Medicaid directed payments

  Nov. 5, 2024

• Physicians, hospitals decry 2025 Medicare payment rates

  Nov. 4, 2024

• Medicare saves record $2.1B from largest accountable care program

  Oct. 31, 2024

• Cigna CEO tamps down on Humana deal speculation

  Oct. 31, 2024

• Humana boosts 2024 earnings guidance thanks to Medicare Advantage member retention

  Oct. 30, 2024

• Rising healthcare costs could trickle down to workers: employer survey

  Oct. 30, 2024

• AMA sues MultiPlan, insurers, alleging ‘cartel’ to fix physician prices

  Oct. 25, 2024

• State Medicaid directors concerned about program’s stability: KFF

  Oct. 24, 2024

• Molina ‘beating the odds’ in Medicaid

  Oct. 24, 2024

• Insurer lobby blames government policies for 2025 Medicare Advantage market makeup

  Oct. 23, 2024

• Centene sues HHS over Medicare Advantage star ratings fall

  Oct. 23, 2024

• Amazon’s One Medical, Cleveland Clinic partner to build primary care clinics in Ohio

  Oct. 22, 2024

• Humana sues HHS over calamitous Medicare Advantage star ratings decrease

  Oct. 21, 2024

• UnitedHealth sues CMS over Medicare Advantage star ratings

  Oct. 4, 2024

• Humana’s Medicare Advantage dilemma worsens amid precipitous drop in 2025 star ratings

  Oct. 3, 2024

• Blue Shield of California sidesteps PBMs with new Humira biosimilar deal

  Oct. 2, 2024

• CVS to lay off 2,900 employees amid reports of strategic review

  Oct. 1, 2024

• J&J drops 340B rebate plan following government pressure

  Oct. 1, 2024

• Democrats introduce bill to make increased ACA subsidies permanent

  Sept. 26, 2024

• CMS holds accountable care organizations harmless for ‘highly suspect’ Medicare billing

  Sept. 25, 2024

• Top Senate Democrat grills hospitals on EMTALA compliance as women denied emergency abortions

  Sept. 24, 2024

• FTC sues major pharmacy benefit managers over insulin prices

  Sept. 20, 2024

• Cigna scaling back Medicare Advantage footprint in 8 states next year

  Sept. 20, 2024

• Oak Street Health pays $60M to settle allegations of kickback scheme

  Sept. 19, 2024

• US is drastically behind other wealthy nations on healthcare, despite spending the most

  Sept. 18, 2024

• J&J threatened with sanctions over plan to rebate 340B drugs

  Sept. 18, 2024

• Express Scripts sues FTC over report damning pharmacy benefit managers

  Sept. 17, 2024

• Walgreens settles allegations of fraudulent billing with DOJ

  Sept. 16, 2024

• Medicare Advantage bonuses poised to drop this year for first time since 2015, KFF says

  Sept. 13, 2024

• PBM executives decline to revise controversial testimony to House committee

  Sept. 12, 2024

• Major PBMs could be zeroing in on specific payer markets for dominance, study suggests

  Sept. 11, 2024

• Iowa awards Centene Medicaid managed care contract

  Sept. 10, 2024

• Biden administration finalizes rule raising mental health coverage standards for private plans

  Sept. 10, 2024

• Elevance expands ACA plans in Florida, Texas, Maryland

  Sept. 9, 2024

• FTC opposes Indiana’s first hospital merger under controversial COPA law

  Sept. 6, 2024

• Mississippi awards Medicaid contracts to Centene, Molina, TrueCare

  Sept. 5, 2024

• Molina puts CFO in charge of Medicaid, ACA marketplace businesses

  Sept. 4, 2024

• Drug distributors agree to $300M settlement for role in opioid epidemic

  Sept. 4, 2024

• Walgreens sued by shareholder amid plummeting stock price

  Aug. 30, 2024

• PBM executives threatened with fines and jail time for alleged perjury in House hearing

  Aug. 29, 2024

• More than one-fifth of insurers failed to pay No Surprises awards last year, provider lobby says

  Aug. 28, 2024

• J&J plans unilateral reform to 340B drug discount program

  Aug. 26, 2024

• Steward to close two Ohio hospitals, Pennsylvania facility at risk

  Aug. 23, 2024

• CMS has received 12K complaints of No Surprises noncompliance; won $1.7M in restitution

  Aug. 22, 2024

• Large employers forecast 7.8% hike in health costs next year, thanks to rising pharmacy spend

  Aug. 21, 2024

• Judge strikes down FTC noncompete ban nationwide

  Aug. 21, 2024

• Humana pays $90M to settle whistleblower allegations of Medicare Part D fraud

  Aug. 20, 2024

• Massachusetts makes deal to force Steward hospital sales

  Aug. 19, 2024

• Court strikes down HHS change to low-income payment formula in win for Texas hospitals

  Aug. 19, 2024

• Medicaid overtakes Medicare Advantage as health insurers’ bogeyman in Q2

  Aug. 15, 2024

• Texas sues Biden administration over nursing home staffing mandate

  Aug. 15, 2024

• Elevance, Clayton Dubilier and Rice unveil primary care venture Mosaic Health

  Aug. 14, 2024

• Walgreens considering full sale of VillageMD

  Aug. 8, 2024

• Aetna executive ousted as CVS’ Medicare Advantage woes drag into second quarter

  Aug. 7, 2024

• Uninsured rate jumps to 8.2% amid Medicaid unwinding: CDC

  Aug. 7, 2024

• Premiums for ACA plans to grow 7% next year: KFF

  Aug. 7, 2024

• Appeals court hands providers latest win in No Surprises litigation

  Aug. 6, 2024

• Walgreens further reduces stake in Cencora for $1.1B

  Aug. 5, 2024

• Medicare finalizes higher 2.9% inpatient payment rate for 2025

  Aug. 2, 2024

• Cigna CEO promises ‘aggressive’ defense of pharmacy benefit managers

  Aug. 1, 2024

• Disadvantaged areas less likely to have high-quality Medicare Advantage plans, study finds

  July 31, 2024

• Humana expects to lose ‘few hundred thousand’ Medicare Advantage members next year

  July 31, 2024

• Google cuts ties with Amazon’s One Medical

  July 30, 2024

• Growth in ACA plans keeps Medicaid giant Centene from worst of redeterminations impact

  July 26, 2024

• Molina’s Medicaid growth offsets worst of redeterminations pressures in Q2

  July 25, 2024

• PBMs battle bipartisan scrutiny as lawmakers eye industry reform

  July 24, 2024

• CMS cracks down on ACA brokers to prevent plan switching

  July 22, 2024

• Elevance hits $2.3B in profit but trims long-term guidance

  July 17, 2024

• UnitedHealth’s cyberattack response costs to surpass $2.3B this year

  July 16, 2024

• CMS’ first No Surprises audit targets Aetna, finds some noncompliance

  July 12, 2024

• CMS proposes 2.9% cut to physician pay for 2025

  July 11, 2024

• Federal Trade Commission to sue three largest PBMs: WSJ

  July 10, 2024

• Judge pauses CMS rule capping compensation for Medicare Advantage brokers

  July 10, 2024

• Medicare proposes 2.6% bump to hospital outpatient pay next year

  July 10, 2024

• CMS revised Medicare Advantage star ratings. Here’s which payers benefited.

  July 9, 2024

• FTC slams pharmacy benefit managers in first report from ongoing investigation

  July 9, 2024

• UnitedHealth, Amedisys agree to sell clinics to get merger across finish line

  July 2, 2024

• SCOTUS strikes down Chevron doctrine, curbing federal agency power

  June 28, 2024

• Amazon folds telehealth marketplace into One Medical

  June 28, 2024

• Optum Rx reaches $20M settlement with Justice Department over opioid prescribing

  June 28, 2024

• Walgreens to reduce stake in VillageMD, close stores

  June 27, 2024

• Arkansas sues Optum, Express Scripts over role in opioid epidemic

  June 25, 2024

• Appeals court upholds ACA’s preventive services mandate, but opens door to future challenges

  June 24, 2024

• States using unwinding lessons to improve Medicaid: KFF

  June 21, 2024

• Uninsured rate expected to hit 8.9% over next decade, CBO finds

  June 18, 2024

• Amazon expands drug subscription program to Medicare members

  June 18, 2024

• Biden administration gives providers grace period to open surprise billing arbitration

  June 17, 2024

• Lawmakers promise to stop kicking the can on Medicare solvency

  June 14, 2024

• CMS recalculates Medicare Advantage star ratings in major win for insurers

  June 14, 2024

• National health spending reached $4.8T last year, CMS actuaries estimate

  June 12, 2024

• MACPAC wants Congress to force states to disclose Medicaid financing streams

  June 12, 2024

• Elevance wins star ratings lawsuit (sort of)

  June 11, 2024

• Walgreens-backed CityMD settles with Justice Department over alleged COVID fraud

  June 10, 2024

• Affordable Care Act insurers could be on the hook for $1.1B in rebates this year

  June 7, 2024

• Humana and CVS are downsizing their Medicare Advantage plans for 2025. Which insurers could benefit?

  June 6, 2024

• House subcommittee lands on transparency for 340B reform

  June 5, 2024

• Medicare Advantage sales middleman sues HHS over rule capping broker compensation

  June 3, 2024

• Move over, Medicare Advantage — UnitedHealth, Centene flag higher Medicaid utilization concerns

  May 30, 2024

• Minnesota’s Medicaid program to block for-profit insurers from participation

  May 29, 2024

• Express Scripts’ new partnership is an olive branch to independent pharmacies

  May 23, 2024

• House committee takes aim at healthcare consolidation, eyes site-neutral payments

  May 23, 2024

• UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx unveils new drug pricing model

  May 21, 2024

• Senate Finance Committee tackles Medicare physician pay reform

  May 20, 2024

• Kansas jilts CVS in new Medicaid contract awards

  May 15, 2024

• Judge dismisses FTC’s antitrust suit against Welsh Carson

  May 14, 2024

• Humana CEO Bruce Broussard to depart July 1

  May 14, 2024

• Medicare Advantage unrest, Change Healthcare fallout and more big takeaways from insurers’ Q1

  May 13, 2024

• CHS sues MultiPlan for allegedly colluding to lower provider reimbursement

  May 10, 2024

• CMS proposes mandatory kidney care model with financial risk for hospitals

  May 9, 2024

• Private equity investing in healthcare continues to slow

  May 8, 2024

• Medicare go-broke date extended to 2036, but warning bells continue ringing

  May 7, 2024

• Medicaid redeterminations losses exceeding predicted levels in some states

  May 6, 2024

• Antitrust agencies are relying on consumers to report anticompetitive behavior. That trust might be misplaced.

  May 6, 2024

• Walgreens inks GLP-1 clinical trial deal with major German drugmaker

  May 3, 2024

• Cigna writes down VillageMD investment amid shrinking value

  May 2, 2024

• CVS acquires Medicare Advantage broker Hella Health

  May 1, 2024

• CVS slashes 2024 outlook — again — as Medicare seniors drive spending

  May 1, 2024

• Walmart Health shuts down

  April 30, 2024

• FTC broadens health breach notification rule to include apps

  April 29, 2024

• Centene looks beyond Medicaid redeterminations

  April 26, 2024

• Molina to challenge Medicaid contract losses in Florida, Virginia

  April 25, 2024

• Humana withdraws 2025 earnings outlook on unsatisfactory MA rates

  April 24, 2024

• FTC votes to ban noncompetes, with far-reaching effects on doctors

  April 23, 2024

• Medicaid final rules hand hospitals win on supplemental payments

  April 23, 2024

• Providers, drugmakers at odds over new 340B dispute resolution process

  April 19, 2024

• Elevance notches $2.3B in profit, unfazed by Change attack

  April 18, 2024

• ACOs led by independent physicians save Medicare ‘substantially’ more money, CBO says

  April 17, 2024

• Elevance partners with private equity firm on primary care

  April 16, 2024

• UnitedHealth expects up to $1.6B hit from Change cyberattack this year

  April 16, 2024

• Florida issues Medicaid managed care awards booting out UnitedHealth, CVS and Molina

  April 15, 2024

• More than three-fourths of doctors are employed by corporations, report finds

  April 12, 2024

• CMS proposes 2.6% payment increase for inpatient hospitals next year

  April 11, 2024

• Confusion about Medicaid skewing coverage estimates, study finds

  April 10, 2024

• Michigan divvies out Medicaid contracts, with Centene, Molina seeing minor losses

  April 9, 2024

• CMS caps broker payments in Medicare Advantage

  April 8, 2024

• Amwell in danger of being booted from NYSE

  April 5, 2024

• Walmart decelerates health center expansion plans

  April 4, 2024

• CMS finalizes ACA network adequacy rule

  April 3, 2024

• Kaiser closes Geisinger acquisition, launching Risant Health

  April 3, 2024

• Biden administration finalizes modest cut to 2025 Medicare Advantage rates

  April 2, 2024

• UnitedHealth CFO John Rex to replace Dirk McMahon as president

  March 29, 2024

• Biden administration finalizes rule cracking down on short-term plans

  March 29, 2024

• CMS streamlines Medicaid, CHIP renewal and enrollment in final rule

  March 28, 2024

• Walgreens posts $6B loss on waning VillageMD value; ups clinic closures

  March 28, 2024

• Medicare’s GLP-1 spending is skyrocketing, even without weight loss coverage: KFF

  March 27, 2024

• CMS launches model to increase primary care investment in Medicare

  March 20, 2024

• Elevance to buy Kroger’s specialty pharmacy

  March 19, 2024

• ‘As fast as possible but no faster than is safe’: Hospitals, tech companies confront AI governance

  March 18, 2024

• Government watchdog warns of Medicaid oversight gaps

  March 18, 2024

• Microsoft’s health VP takes on responsible AI

  March 18, 2024

• Salesforce’s pitch on healthcare AI

  March 15, 2024

• Mayo Clinic launches digital health product pipeline

  March 14, 2024

• HHS artificial intelligence task force takes shape

  March 14, 2024

• Microsoft forms health AI governance network

  March 12, 2024

• Oracle to launch generative AI-backed clinical assistant within next quarter, exec says

  March 12, 2024

• Google launches AI-backed search-and-answer tool for doctors

  March 12, 2024

• Why Cigna is capping cost increases for pricey GLP-1 weight loss drugs

  March 8, 2024

• Community Health Systems to buy drugs from Mark Cuban Cost Plus

  March 8, 2024

• UMass Memorial, Google Cloud partner to connect patients with cardiometabolic drugs

  March 6, 2024

• Elevance gains $190M on revised MA star ratings

  March 5, 2024

• CVS, Walgreens to begin selling mifepristone

  March 4, 2024

• Molina loses Medicaid contract in Virginia

  March 1, 2024

• UnitedHealth under antitrust investigation by DOJ: reports

  Feb. 28, 2024

• Lobby-funded study argues Medicare Advantage rate cuts are worse than CMS expects

  Feb. 27, 2024

• R1 RCM receives takeover offer from New Mountain

  Feb. 26, 2024

• UnitedHealth suspects ‘nation-state’ behind Change cyberattack

  Feb. 23, 2024

• Walgreens to close VillageMD clinics in Florida

  Feb. 22, 2024

• No Surprises implementation created uptick in in-network claims: Fair Health

  Feb. 20, 2024

• Insurers brace for continued Medicare Advantage medical costs

  Feb. 20, 2024

• Disputes over surprise billing continue to soar, new CMS data shows

  Feb. 16, 2024

• Blue Cross of Louisiana halts sale to Elevance

  Feb. 15, 2024

• Elevance lays off more employees

  Feb. 13, 2024

• FTC obtains $195M judgment against Simple Health for selling ‘sham’ insurance

  Feb. 12, 2024

• Amazon closing One Medical corporate offices

  Feb. 9, 2024

• Molina’s redeterminations losses reach 500K members

  Feb. 8, 2024

• UnitedHealth COO Dirk McMahon to retire

  Feb. 8, 2024

• CVS cuts 2024 outlook on Medicare Advantage caution

  Feb. 7, 2024

• Centene echoes Humana’s concerns about proposed MA rate drop

  Feb. 6, 2024

• Humana flags potential MA funding dip if proposed rate notice finalized

  Feb. 5, 2024

• Cigna is still interested in Medicare

  Feb. 2, 2024

• Medicare Advantage plans could see rates dip slightly in 2025

  Feb. 1, 2024

• Humana plots CenterWell expansion in 2024

  Jan. 31, 2024

• Cigna sells Medicare businesses to HCSC for $3.7B

  Jan. 31, 2024

• Medicare ACO participation grows in 2024: CMS

  Jan. 30, 2024

• No Surprises Act prevented 10M surprise bills in first nine months of 2023, insurer groups say

  Jan. 29, 2024

• Humana names inaugural ‘Growth President’ after posting grim financial outlook

  Jan. 26, 2024

• Appeals court rejects doctors’ challenge to No Surprises Act

  Jan. 25, 2024

• Humana posts big loss, dour outlook on Medicare Advantage cost spike

  Jan. 24, 2024

• Elevance controls medical costs to $6B profit in 2023

  Jan. 24, 2024

• Nurse sues UPMC over alleged labor abuses

  Jan. 23, 2024

• Centene names Wellcare CEO

  Jan. 22, 2024

• Centene wins New Hampshire Medicaid contract

  Jan. 19, 2024

• Humana slashes 2023 profit outlook as high medical costs continue

  Jan. 18, 2024

• General Catalyst to acquire Ohio nonprofit Summa Health

  Jan. 17, 2024

• CMS finalizes rule tightening prior authorization turnaround for insurers

  Jan. 17, 2024

• MA spending to outstrip traditional Medicare by $88B this year: MedPAC

  Jan. 16, 2024

• Trends shaping the business of health insurance in 2024

  Jan. 16, 2024

• UnitedHealth reports highest medical costs since COVID-19 pandemic’s start

  Jan. 12, 2024

• ACA enrollment for 2024 reaches record high

  Jan. 11, 2024

• Walgreens to pay Humana $360M to settle drug pricing dispute

  Jan. 9, 2024

• Amazon launches chronic condition management portal; Omada nabs first partnership

  Jan. 8, 2024

• Elevance sues HHS over Medicare Advantage star ratings

  Jan. 8, 2024

• CVS names Tom Cowhey permanent CFO

  Jan. 5, 2024

• UnitedHealth, OptumRx sued by independent pharmacy over ‘unconscionable’ fees

  Dec. 20, 2023

• FTC, DOJ finalize merger guidelines that could impede healthcare M&A

  Dec. 19, 2023

• Elevance, BCBSLA resurrect $2.5B merger

  Dec. 18, 2023

• CMS asks health plans, PBMs to ease up on independent pharmacies

  Dec. 15, 2023

• Health spending growth normalized in 2022 post-COVID, CMS says

  Dec. 14, 2023

• Centene tries to quell concerns of ACA overhaul during investor day

  Dec. 13, 2023

• Health costs grew in line with overall inflation in 2023, new Turquoise data shows

  Dec. 12, 2023

• Cigna pulls out of Humana deal: WSJ

  Dec. 11, 2023

• Hospital lobbies push back on site-neutral provision in House bill

  Dec. 8, 2023

• Interstate travel for abortion care has doubled since 2020: Guttmacher

  Dec. 7, 2023

• Clover Health exits ACO REACH

  Dec. 6, 2023

• CVS overhauls how its retail pharmacies charge for prescription drugs

  Dec. 5, 2023

• A Cigna-Humana merger could face a long regulatory delay. But it might get approved.

  Dec. 4, 2023

• North Carolina Medicaid expansion kicks in

  Dec. 1, 2023

• Medicare Advantage rate change bedevils UnitedHealth’s 2024 outlook

  Nov. 30, 2023

• Cigna, Humana in talks to merge: WSJ

  Nov. 29, 2023

• Democrat senators accuse PE-backed US Anesthesia Partners of anticompetitive business practices

  Nov. 28, 2023

• 340B drug discount program yields mixed evidence on how hospitals use funds

  Nov. 27, 2023

• CMS proposes stricter network adequacy standards for plans in state-run ACA exchanges

  Nov. 16, 2023

• Centene names new COO following leadership turnover

  Nov. 15, 2023

• UnitedHealth sued over use of algorithm to deny care for MA members

  Nov. 15, 2023

• State Medicaid officials project enrollment nosedive next year amid unwinding

  Nov. 14, 2023

• One Medical enters New Jersey through latest health system deal, with Hackensack Meridian Health

  Nov. 14, 2023

• Optum Rx moves 8 insulins to preferred formulary status as pressure mounts on PBMs

  Nov. 10, 2023

• Walgreens lays off 5% of corporate workforce; CMO Kevin Ban departs

  Nov. 10, 2023

• Medicare Advantage seniors have better health outcomes, study finds

  Nov. 9, 2023

• Amazon discounts One Medical membership for Prime customers to $9 a month

  Nov. 8, 2023

• Biggest takeaways from health insurers’ third-quarter earnings

  Nov. 8, 2023

• Best Buy inks third health system product development deal, with Mass General Brigham

  Nov. 8, 2023

• Biden administration proposes capping broker payment in MA, following pressure

  Nov. 7, 2023

• Medicaid disenrollments pass 10M as states continue eligibility checks

  Nov. 6, 2023

• CMS finalizes 2024 Medicare hospital, doctor payments, 340B fix and price transparency requirements

  Nov. 3, 2023

• Cigna raises 2023 membership outlook amid healthier economy

  Nov. 2, 2023

• CVS beats expectations in Q3, but high costs weigh on profit outlook

  Nov. 1, 2023

• HHS proposes ‘powerful’ penalties for providers found information blocking

  Oct. 31, 2023

• Biden administration overhauls surprise billing resolution process amid controversy

  Oct. 30, 2023

• Guidance change threatens hospital 340B drug discounts

  Oct. 27, 2023

• Molina lowers Medicaid member retention rate post-redeterminations

  Oct. 26, 2023

• Insurance coverage not a panacea for healthcare affordability: survey

  Oct. 26, 2023

• Defunct direct contracting model saved Medicare $372M last year

  Oct. 25, 2023

• Blue Shield of California is promising a simpler, cheaper pharmacy benefits model. Can it deliver?

  Oct. 25, 2023

• Centene beats Q3 forecasts despite stars, redeterminations pressures

  Oct. 24, 2023

• Express Scripts sued by independent pharmacies over alleged price fixing

  Oct. 23, 2023

• GoodRx, Sanofi partner on $35 insulin

  Oct. 20, 2023

• Amazon’s One Medical rebrands Iora senior centers to One Medical Seniors

  Oct. 17, 2023

• GLP-1s for weight loss leave employers in a bind over coverage

  Oct. 13, 2023

• AI, M&A and MSK: Teladoc’s head of group health shares vendor’s strategic priorities

  Oct. 12, 2023

• Walgreens, chasing profits, to close 60 VillageMD clinics in 2024

  Oct. 12, 2023

• CVS wants to create a healthcare ‘super app’

  Oct. 11, 2023

• ‘Hope is not a strategy’: Health startups short on cash staring down consolidation, investors say

  Oct. 11, 2023

• Sutter unveils Bay Area innovation center as nonprofit leans toward VC

  Oct. 11, 2023

• Walgreens names ex-Cigna exec Tim Wentworth CEO

  Oct. 11, 2023

• Cigna’s Evernorth acquires Bright.md’s asynchronous care tech

  Oct. 10, 2023

• Google Cloud tunes generative AI for medical search capabilities

  Oct. 10, 2023

• Microsoft unveils new generative AI products for health systems

  Oct. 10, 2023

• General Catalyst wants to buy a health system as testing ground for new venture

  Oct. 9, 2023

• Walgreens launches direct-to-consumer telehealth

  Oct. 9, 2023

• Amazon Clinic considers partnering with physical providers for care referrals

  Oct. 9, 2023

• Uber adds Optum-enabled benefits cards to health platform

  Oct. 9, 2023

• Best Buy to sell continuous glucose monitoring systems

  Oct. 9, 2023

• Warren, Jayapal call for closer scrutiny of UnitedHealth-Amedisys deal

  Oct. 4, 2023

• Molina loses anticipated Indiana Medicaid contract

  Oct. 3, 2023

• Anthem, Bon Secours reach contract agreement through 2028

  Oct. 2, 2023

• Cigna pays $172M to settle MA upcoding allegations

  Oct. 2, 2023

• Walgreens reportedly considering ex-Cigna exec for CEO

  Oct. 2, 2023

• Congressional Democrats open investigation into Medicaid MCOs over claims denials

  Sept. 29, 2023

• CVS hit with lawsuit from independent pharmacy over fees

  Sept. 28, 2023

• MA premiums increase slightly for 2024

  Sept. 27, 2023

• Centene lays off 3% of workforce

  Sept. 27, 2023

• Cano sells Texas, Nevada centers to Humana subsidiary for $67M

  Sept. 26, 2023

• Elevance, BCBSLA pause $2.5B merger amid regulatory scrutiny

  Sept. 26, 2023

• CMS to get ‘tougher’ on Medicare Advantage, official promises

  Sept. 22, 2023

• CommonSpirit launches value-based management platform for physicians

  Sept. 22, 2023

• FTC sues US Anesthesia Partners, Welsh Carson over alleged price collusion in Texas

  Sept. 21, 2023

• Cigna hit with second class action suit over claims automation software

  Sept. 20, 2023

• PBMs, PhRMA trade blame over drug costs in House hearing

  Sept. 19, 2023

• Hospitals share differing medical prices online versus over the phone, secret shopper survey finds

  Sept. 18, 2023

• Tennessee BCBS sued by former employees over COVID vaccine mandate

  Sept. 18, 2023

• CMMI teases new behavioral, maternal health models launching this year

  Sept. 15, 2023

• BCBSA finds wide variety in medical cost by site

  Sept. 14, 2023

• GoodRx, MedImpact partner on automatic drug discounts

  Sept. 14, 2023

• PBM reforms in Congress would have modest effect at best and backfire at worst, Brookings says

  Sept. 13, 2023

• CVS CEO ‘optimistic’ payer will improve MA star ratings

  Sept. 13, 2023

• Walgreens inks deal with startup Pearl Health on value-based care for doctors

  Sept. 12, 2023

• Best Buy, Geisinger to develop in-home chronic condition management program

  Sept. 12, 2023

• Walmart reportedly exploring ChenMed acquisition

  Sept. 11, 2023

• CVS shuffles C-suite, appoints CFO as head of health services

  Sept. 8, 2023

• CMS creates all-payer funding opportunity for states

  Sept. 6, 2023

• Humana sues HHS over Medicare Advantage audits

  Sept. 5, 2023

• Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer steps down, to be replaced by executive with ‘deep healthcare experience’

  Sept. 1, 2023

• One Medical CEO resigns from Amazon one year after acquisition

  Sept. 1, 2023

• ‘We’re in the 1999 of the internet era’: a16z’s Julie Yoo on fintech’s potential and the digital health market

  Aug. 31, 2023

• ONC taps Sequoia Project as TEFCA overseer, again

  Aug. 31, 2023

• Medicaid cracks down on states over children wrongly losing coverage during redeterminations

  Aug. 31, 2023

• Humana launches in-home senior care program through CenterWell in Georgia, Louisiana

  Aug. 30, 2023

• GoodRx adds patient insurance information to drug cost platform for providers

  Aug. 30, 2023

• Bon Secours sues Anthem BCBS over unpaid claims

  Aug. 29, 2023

• Google expands generative AI model Med-PaLM to more health customers

  Aug. 29, 2023

• Cigna removes prior authorizations for 25% of services

  Aug. 24, 2023

• Large employers predict pharmacy spend, mental health needs will continue to rise

  Aug. 23, 2023

• Florida sued over Medicaid redeterminations

  Aug. 23, 2023

• Veradigm receives notice of delisting from Nasdaq

  Aug. 21, 2023

• CVS layoffs hit Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and more

  Aug. 21, 2023

• Ground ambulance billing committee skeptical of IDR process

  Aug. 17, 2023

• Blue Shield of California drops CVS Caremark in pharmacy benefit overhaul

  Aug. 17, 2023

• Kroger, Intermountain subsidiary Select Health launch co-branded MA plan

  Aug. 16, 2023

• CMS tweaks ACO REACH to stabilize model

  Aug. 15, 2023

• Amazon Pharmacy expands insulin manufacturer coupons

  Aug. 15, 2023

• Will the Biden administration’s short-term plan rule increase the uninsured rate?

  Aug. 14, 2023

• AdventHealth sues MultiPlan for alleged ‘cartel’ with health insurers to fix prices

  Aug. 14, 2023

• DOJ hits UnitedHealth, Amedisys with second request over $3.3B deal

  Aug. 11, 2023

• MA bonuses reach record high, with UnitedHealthcare, Humana biggest winners

  Aug. 10, 2023

• Smaller insurers tout progress toward profitability in Q2

  Aug. 9, 2023

• 5 takeaways from health insurers’ second-quarter earnings

  Aug. 8, 2023

• Elevance snags Moody’s exec for new CFO

  Aug. 8, 2023

• Texas judge rules in favor of doctors in latest suit over surprise billing process

  Aug. 7, 2023

• Former CMS, BCBS exec steps up as CEO of OptumRx in UnitedHealth leadership shakeup

  Aug. 4, 2023

• Health insurers ignore surprise billing decisions, providers allege

  Aug. 4, 2023

• Cigna checks medical cost growth as Evernorth earnings boosted by GLP-1s

  Aug. 3, 2023

• CVS announces restructuring plan after profit falls 37%

  Aug. 2, 2023

• Humana reports lower-than-feared medical costs, raises MA membership growth outlook

  Aug. 2, 2023

• CMS finalizes 3.1% inpatient payment bump for hospitals

  Aug. 2, 2023

• CVS to lay off 5K employees amid cost pressures

  Aug. 1, 2023

• Elevance rebrands Amerigroup segment as Wellpoint

  Aug. 1, 2023

• CMS releases April Medicaid unwinding data. Total disenrollments top 3.8M

  July 28, 2023

• CMS says data of 612K Medicare beneficiaries affected in MoveIt breach

  July 28, 2023

• Walgreens hunts for healthcare experience in new CFO

  July 28, 2023

• Centene’s 2024 outlook hampered by Medicaid redeterminations

  July 28, 2023

• AWS’ head of health AI on Amazon’s new clinical documentation play

  July 27, 2023

• Molina reports Medicaid redeterminations proceeding as expected

  July 27, 2023

• Amazon launches generative AI-based clinical documentation service

  July 26, 2023

• Biden administration cracks down on payers over mental health coverage

  July 25, 2023

• Cigna sued over algorithm allegedly used to deny claims

  July 25, 2023

• ChenMed taps UnitedHealthcare veteran as new president

  July 24, 2023

• New antitrust merger guidelines could have significant chilling effect on healthcare deals

  July 21, 2023

• CMS pausing Medicaid redeterminations in states noncompliant with renewal requirements

  July 20, 2023

• Elevance curbs elevated medical costs, raises 2023 forecast

  July 19, 2023

• FTC withdraws ‘outdated’ antitrust policy statements. Hospitals cry foul.

  July 18, 2023

• UnitedHealth beats Q2 expectations, despite medical cost growth fears

  July 14, 2023

• Humana, Elevance, Centene downgraded days before second-quarter earnings kickoff

  July 13, 2023

• CMS faces poor data quality in payment model health equity push

  July 12, 2023

• CVS Caremark, GoodRx partner on automatic drug discounts for commercially insured

  July 12, 2023

• CMS to return $9B to 340B hospitals under new plan

  July 10, 2023

• Biden admin rolls back Trump-era expansion of short-term health plans

  July 7, 2023

• Medicare Advantage’s quality bonus program needs reform, Urban Institute argues

  July 6, 2023

• Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements pricier, more restrictive than full expansion

  June 30, 2023

• Nuance integrates generative AI-backed scribe into Epic EHRs

  June 29, 2023

• Primary care compensation growth outpacing other specialties

  June 29, 2023

• HHS finalizes info blocking penalties for IT vendors, kickstarting enforcement

  June 28, 2023

• Walgreens stock plummets after pharmacy chain cuts 2023 outlook

  June 27, 2023

• UnitedHealth to acquire Amedisys for $3.3B after home health provider reneges on Option deal

  June 26, 2023

• Tenet names ex-AmerisourceBergen executive as new CFO

  June 23, 2023

• Telehealth groups applaud CONNECT reintroduction in Senate

  June 22, 2023

• SEIU accuses HCA of inappropriate patient transfers to hospice to boost profits, executive pay

  June 21, 2023

• Oracle reportedly lays off hundreds of Cerner employees amid VA contract troubles

  June 20, 2023

• Humana becomes second major payer to flag higher outpatient volumes in Q2

  June 16, 2023

• US health spending to surpass $7T by 2031, CMS actuaries say

  June 15, 2023

• UnitedHealth expects higher medical costs in Q2 as delayed care makes comeback

  June 14, 2023

• Uber Health adds grocery, over-the-counter item delivery

  June 13, 2023

• CMS exploring models centered on social health factors

  June 9, 2023

• Google, Mayo partner to explore generative AI in hospitals

  June 7, 2023

• Nonprofit hospitals have decreased charity care spending even as operating profits, cash pools grow

  June 6, 2023

• Biden signs debt deal, clearing path for $27B in COVID-19 clawbacks

  June 5, 2023

• UnitedHealth rolls back gastroenterology prior authorization plan amid backlash

  June 2, 2023

• Oak Street, post CVS acquisition, plans to enter 4 new states

  June 1, 2023

• Advocate Health reports 0.1% operating margin in inaugural Q1 earnings

  May 31, 2023

• Healthcare provisions of the debt limit deal: COVID-19 funding clawbacks, no Medicaid work requirements

  May 30, 2023

• CVS could lose up to $1B next year from MA star ratings drop

  May 26, 2023

• US projected to hit record-low uninsurance rate this year

  May 24, 2023

• House lawmakers, PBM lobby spar over committee hearing

  May 24, 2023

• Pharma-backed report targets federal clinics for benefiting financially from 340B drug discounts

  May 23, 2023

• What 3 key congressional hearings last week mean for the industry

  May 19, 2023

• Pennsylvania unions file antitrust complaint against UPMC

  May 19, 2023

• Senate scrutinizes MA payment denials, including use of algorithms

  May 18, 2023

• FTC moves to strengthen Health Breach Notification Rule’s applicability to digital health apps

  May 18, 2023

• House Republicans target Biden admin over hospital price transparency noncompliance

  May 17, 2023

• CommonSpirit’s operating losses swell, sparking job cuts

  May 16, 2023

• CVS shuttering clinical trials unit

  May 15, 2023

• DEA temporarily extends COVID-19 telehealth prescribing flexibility for controlled substances

  May 4, 2023

• Bright Health gets new CFO

  May 4, 2023

• CVS lowers 2023 earnings outlook on Oak Street, Signify deal costs

  May 3, 2023

• Biden admin officially ends COVID vaccine mandate for health workers

  May 2, 2023

• CVS closes $10.6B Oak Street Health buy

  May 2, 2023

• Bright Health explores sale of California MA business

  May 1, 2023

• Walmart Health expands into Oklahoma

  April 28, 2023

• Teladoc beats Wall Street expectations on first quarter results, raises guidance

  April 27, 2023

• Lawmakers show bipartisan support for site-neutral payments

  April 27, 2023

• Kaiser Permanente to acquire Geisinger, form company to operate other nonprofit systems

  April 26, 2023

• GoodRx co-CEOs out; former GoDaddy CEO to serve as interim chief executive

  April 26, 2023

• AHIP’s new ad spot targets pharma over drug costs as Congress scrutinizes PBMs

  April 25, 2023

• ‘Hurtling into the future’: The potential and thorny ethics of generative AI in healthcare

  April 21, 2023

• Oracle’s plan to build national health records database ‘going great,’ Feinberg says

  April 21, 2023

• Verizon to deploy 5G in new-build Cleveland Clinic hospital

  April 20, 2023

• Hospitals look for immediate return on investments in tough operating environment

  April 20, 2023

• Seema Verma, Trump CMS administrator, to join Oracle

  April 19, 2023

• The evolution of Amazon Pharmacy

  April 19, 2023

• Pharmacists stump for more active role in primary care

  April 18, 2023

• Teladoc expands provider-based program to prediabetes, weight management as demand surges for weight loss drugs

  April 18, 2023

• UnitedHealth notches record revenue in first quarter

  April 14, 2023

• Advocate Aurora is latest nonprofit in the red, posts $751M net loss in 2022

  April 13, 2023

• HHS proposes rule shoring up HIPAA to protect reproductive health data, including around abortions

  April 12, 2023

• Legal abortions fell by more than 32K following Dobbs decision, new data shows

  April 12, 2023

• New ONC rule aims to raise trust in clinical decision support algorithms

  April 12, 2023

• CMS proposes 2.8% hospital payment bump for 2024; lobbies decry rise as ‘woefully inadequate’

  April 11, 2023

• Cano’s former board members allege conflicts of interest, insider loans

  April 11, 2023

• Scope of CommonSpirit data breach larger than initially disclosed

  April 10, 2023

• New York judge denies UnitedHealth’s request for summary judgment in TeamHealth lawsuit

  April 7, 2023

• CMS cracks down on MA coverage denials and misleading ads in final rule

  April 6, 2023

• ‘Turbulent waters’: The rocky digital health funding market post-SVB collapse

  April 6, 2023

• Cano board members resign, call for CEO’s termination amid ‘decimated’ stock and ‘crippling’ debt

  April 5, 2023

• Study finds ‘ubiquitous’ third-party tracking on hospital websites, compromising user data

  April 4, 2023

• UnitedHealth executive returns to company 6 months after leaving for CVS

  April 3, 2023

• Medicare go-broke date pushed back to 2031

  April 3, 2023

• Medicaid redeterminations have restarted. Here’s what we know

  March 31, 2023

• Uber Health launches same-day prescription delivery

  March 31, 2023

• CVS-Oak Street deal clears regulatory hurdle as antitrust waiting period expires

  March 30, 2023

• UnitedHealthcare cuts back prior authorization requirements

  March 30, 2023

• Amazon Pharmacy adds manufacturer coupons for some brand name drugs

  March 29, 2023

• Walgreens healthcare division boosts retail giant’s second-quarter earnings

  March 28, 2023

• Oscar Health names former Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini as new chief executive

  March 28, 2023

• North Carolina becomes 40th state to expand Medicaid

  March 27, 2023

• CVS closes $8B Signify acquisition

  March 27, 2023

• Microsoft’s Nuance integrates GPT-4 into medical scribe

  March 21, 2023

• IBM installs quantum computer on-site at Cleveland Clinic

  March 21, 2023

• Wyoming bans abortion pills

  March 20, 2023

• Provider directories remain inconsistent, despite No Surprises Act provisions

  March 17, 2023

• Majority of states plan to take their time with Medicaid redeterminations

  March 16, 2023

• Oscar Health names current physician leader new CMO

  March 15, 2023

• Google plans to boost Medicaid information during redeterminations

  March 15, 2023

• FTC says health privacy key priority in 2024 budget request

  March 15, 2023

• Democrat senators press major US pharmacies on mifepristone access

  March 14, 2023

• Majority of adults with medical debt owe money to hospitals

  March 13, 2023

• California cancels $54M Walgreens contract over company’s decision to not sell abortion pills

  March 9, 2023

• Texas women, denied medically necessary abortions, sue state to clarify exceptions to ban

  March 8, 2023

• Biden’s plan to improve Medicare solvency targets prescription drugs

  March 7, 2023

• Atrium, Best Buy partner to co-develop hospital-at-home programming

  March 7, 2023

• Transcarent to acquire majority of telehealth platform 98point6 for $100M

  March 6, 2023

• Walgreens-backed VillageMD acquires Connecticut medical group

  March 3, 2023

• FTC bans BetterHelp from sharing consumer data with advertisers, issues $7.8M fine

  March 2, 2023

• Walmart Health plans clinic expansion in 2024, pushing into 2 new states

  March 2, 2023

• Bright Health chases cash after overdrawing credit facility

  March 1, 2023

• Why regulators didn’t challenge Amazon-One Medical deal, despite data concerns

  March 1, 2023

• Oak Street Health posts $510M loss, outlines risks to CVS acquisition

  March 1, 2023

• Walmart Health names new executive vice president

  Feb. 28, 2023

• UPMC, top surgeon pay $8.5M to settle whistleblower lawsuit over simultaneous surgeries

  Feb. 28, 2023

• Teladoc reports historic net loss of $13.7B in 2022

  Feb. 23, 2023

• UnitedHealth closes $5.4B buy of home health business LHC

  Feb. 22, 2023

• Amazon closes $3.9B buy of One Medical

  Feb. 22, 2023

• HIPAA complaints, breaches increased from 2017 to 2021 as HHS urges more funding

  Feb. 21, 2023

• Could Medicaid redeterminations cause short-term health plan signups to spike?

  Feb. 21, 2023

• LHC to delist from Nasdaq, suggesting UnitedHealth could complete acquisition next week

  Feb. 16, 2023

• Louisiana systems hit with lawsuits for allegedly sharing patient data with Facebook

  Feb. 16, 2023

• CommonSpirit, AdventHealth dissolve joint hospital venture in Colorado, Kansas

  Feb. 15, 2023

• ONC debuts first cohort of qualified networks in TEFCA, including Epic, eHealth Exchange

  Feb. 14, 2023

• FTC’s enforcement action against GoodRx unveiled a new regulatory threat. Should digital health apps be concerned?

  Feb. 13, 2023

• HHS pauses surprise billing arbitration after Texas court decision

  Feb. 13, 2023

• CVS, Oak Street stump for $10.6B combination by outlining plans for growth

  Feb. 8, 2023

• CVS buys Oak Street Health for $10.6B

  Feb. 8, 2023

• Private equity notched second-highest year of healthcare dealmaking in 2022, Pitchbook finds

  Feb. 6, 2023

• Cigna addresses MA overhaul, fresh off $6.7B in profit

  Feb. 3, 2023

• Healthcare industry most common victim of third-party breaches, Black Kite finds

  Feb. 2, 2023

• FTC orders GoodRx to stop sharing users’ health data with advertisers, issues $1.5M fine

  Feb. 1, 2023

• Court rules for drugmakers over HHS in 340B fight over contract pharmacies

  Jan. 31, 2023

• Louisiana sends cease-and-desist order to Express Scripts over delayed insurance claims

  Jan. 30, 2023

• Cigna sues CVS, former pharmacy head Bricker over exec’s departure

  Jan. 27, 2023

• More hospitals are electronically sharing health information

  Jan. 27, 2023

• Artificial intelligence could save healthcare industry $360B a year

  Jan. 26, 2023

• CVS, Rush partner on new ACO for Chicago Medicare patients

  Jan. 24, 2023

• Amazon doubles down on generic drugs with new RxPass subscription

  Jan. 24, 2023

• Dollar General latest player to enter retail clinic arena

  Jan. 23, 2023

• Study throws claims of telehealth savings into doubt

  Jan. 19, 2023

• Cleveland Clinic expects $200M-plus operating loss in 2022

  Jan. 19, 2023

• Major government ACOs to cover 13.2M people this year

  Jan. 18, 2023

• Teladoc slashes 6% of workforce in cost-cutting effort

  Jan. 18, 2023

• How technology will shape healthcare in 2023

  Jan. 17, 2023

• UnitedHealth, flush off 2022 momentum, eyes membership, value-based growth

  Jan. 13, 2023

• Omada partners with Intermountain on diabetes management in Utah

  Jan. 12, 2023

• Hospitals disappointed with court ruling placing HHS in charge of 340B repayment

  Jan. 11, 2023

• Teladoc expects $2.4B in 2022 revenue, boosted by BetterHelp

  Jan. 10, 2023

• CVS reportedly nearing $10.5B buy of Oak Street

  Jan. 10, 2023

• Oak Street names first chief wellness officer

  Jan. 6, 2023

• Teladoc rolling out new integrated health app this year

  Jan. 5, 2023

• GE’s new healthcare spinoff nabs Amazon executive as CTO

  Jan. 5, 2023

• Walgreens raises healthcare segment outlook on Summit acquisition

  Jan. 5, 2023

• Allscripts changes name to Veradigm

  Jan. 4, 2023

• High-intensity billing in ERs has increased, but not only due to upcoding, research suggests

  Dec. 21, 2022

• ‘Bravo Congress’: Telehealth groups cheer omnibus extension of COVID-19 flexibilities

  Dec. 21, 2022

• Telehealth visits across most specialties don’t require in-person follow-up, study finds

  Dec. 15, 2022

• National health spending reached $4.3 trillion in 2021

  Dec. 14, 2022

• CMS estimates 41.5M people affected by innovation center models since late 2020

  Dec. 14, 2022

• Bright Health in danger of being booted from NYSE

  Dec. 13, 2022

• Variability in Medicare direct contracting savings illustrates promises, pitfalls of value-based care

  Dec. 12, 2022

• Progressive lawmakers call on CMS to cull companies with history of Medicare fraud from ACO REACH

  Dec. 12, 2022

• Payers, providers applaud new CMS prior authorization rule

  Dec. 8, 2022

• UnitedHealth’s $5.4B buy of LHC expected to close in Q1

  Dec. 7, 2022

• CMS proposes new prior authorization requirements for payers, including MA plans

  Dec. 7, 2022

• Fresenius CFO named chief executive amid operational turnaround

  Dec. 6, 2022

• UnitedHealthcare loses lawsuit to TeamHealth — again — in ongoing battle over billing

  Dec. 2, 2022

• As complaints roll in, ‘complexity’ holding up HHS information blocking enforcement, health IT coordinator says

  Dec. 1, 2022

• Cleveland Clinic losses top $1.5B amid inflation pressures

  Dec. 1, 2022

• Ousted MetroHealth CEO, facing embezzlement allegations, sues hospital over termination

  Nov. 30, 2022

• Google Health inks first licensing agreement for mammography AI tech

  Nov. 28, 2022

• Amwell in talks to acquire Talkspace: report

  Nov. 28, 2022

• MetroHealth fires CEO Akram Boutros over almost $2M in unreported bonuses

  Nov. 23, 2022

• State AGs urge Apple to protect consumers’ reproductive health data

  Nov. 22, 2022

• Morgan Health nabs Walmart executive to accelerate strategy around population health

  Nov. 21, 2022

• ‘Not in la la land’: As digital health funding ebbs, VCs urge startups to be conservative

  Nov. 18, 2022

• One Medical’s innovation chief on Amazon, Medicaid and more

  Nov. 18, 2022

• Oak Street has no interest in a takeover, bullish on Walmart partnership and more from CMO Ali Khan

  Nov. 17, 2022

• HHS to look at MA risk adjustment as upcoding in spotlight

  Nov. 17, 2022

• Divided Congress after midterms will allow HHS to execute on policy priorities, Becerra says

  Nov. 16, 2022

• Google hasn’t given up on personal health records

  Nov. 16, 2022

• Elevance plans to continue aggressive M&A, CEO says

  Nov. 15, 2022

• Included Health launches new virtual care, navigation product

  Nov. 15, 2022

• Maven raises $90M, fueling push into Medicaid, CMO says

  Nov. 15, 2022

• General Catalyst adds 10 new health system partners, including UHS

  Nov. 15, 2022

• Amazon launches virtual doctor marketplace in newest healthcare play

  Nov. 15, 2022

• Google, Epic partnering to allow Epic hospital clients to run EHRs on Google Cloud

  Nov. 14, 2022

• Google Cloud to launch healthcare data capabilities in bid to improve health equity, patient management

  Nov. 14, 2022

• Cigna’s MDLive will add chronic care program to virtual primary care plans

  Nov. 14, 2022

• More than the main stage: 5 key panels at HLTH 2022

  Nov. 10, 2022

• Bright Health ceases MA operations in Florida in latest business cut

  Nov. 10, 2022

• What’s in it for Evernorth? Cigna’s health services arm invests $2.5B in VillageMD-Summit

  Nov. 9, 2022

• Oak Street Health brings in record revenue in Q3

  Nov. 8, 2022

• Walgreens-backed VillageMD buys Summit Health for $9B

  Nov. 7, 2022

• Half of hospitals spend just 1.4% of expenses on charity care, KFF finds

  Nov. 4, 2022

• Capitated revenue now makes up outsized share of One Medical’s net revenue

  Nov. 3, 2022

• CVS agrees to pay $5B to resolve opioid-related lawsuits

  Nov. 2, 2022

• As travel time to abortion clinics skyrockets post-Dobbs, patients turn to telemedicine for abortion pills

  Nov. 2, 2022

• U.S. seeing loss of physicians providing contraceptive services, study suggests

  Nov. 1, 2022

• Healthcare lobbying rose 70% over past two decades

  Oct. 31, 2022

• Walgreens-backed VillageMD in talks to merge with Summit, Bloomberg reports

  Oct. 31, 2022

• UnitedHealthcare latest payer to expand ACA reach with 4 new states for 2023

  Oct. 28, 2022

• Teladoc shares on upswing as it sets up for ‘achievable’ growth

  Oct. 27, 2022

• Walmart adds new health clinics in Florida

  Oct. 26, 2022

• After pandemic highs, digital health funding slouches to early 2019 levels

  Oct. 25, 2022

• DOJ requests more info on CVS, Signify deal

  Oct. 21, 2022

• Crossover Health in talks with multiple major insurers to offer capitated primary care

  Oct. 21, 2022

• Providers are doubling down on software investments, report finds

  Oct. 20, 2022

• Calm CEO David Ko on the meditation’s app expansion into clinical mental health

  Oct. 20, 2022

• Falling MA star ratings dog payers’ future earnings

  Oct. 18, 2022

• Biden admin increases funding for community mental health clinics

  Oct. 18, 2022

• UnitedHealth raises 2022 earnings outlook following Q3 beat

  Oct. 14, 2022

• Walgreens thinks healthcare division will achieve profitability by 2024

  Oct. 13, 2022

• Walmart steps into clinical trials, joining rivals Walgreens, CVS

  Oct. 12, 2022

• Walgreens snaps up rest of CareCentrix for $392M

  Oct. 11, 2022

• Beleaguered Bright slashes footprint, fully exiting ACA markets and restricting MA to 2 states

  Oct. 11, 2022

• CVS tags Optum exec to lead new healthcare delivery division

  Oct. 10, 2022

• Care New England appoints new CEO

  Oct. 7, 2022

• Providers now required to share greater scope of patient data

  Oct. 6, 2022

• Google launches suite of digital tools around medical images

  Oct. 6, 2022

• Cigna expands MA presence by 22% for 2023

  Oct. 5, 2022

• How tight nursing home capacity is bottlenecking hospital operations

  Oct. 4, 2022

• Period tracker Flo launches anonymous mode amid post-Roe privacy concerns

  Sept. 15, 2022

• Amazon, Walmart among hundreds of employers, health groups urging Senate to extend telehealth flexibilities

  Sept. 14, 2022

• Vera, Castlight rebrand; announce ex-Cerner executive as CEO

  Sept. 12, 2022

• Teladoc names first-ever chief health equity officer

  Sept. 12, 2022

• CVS enters into 4 new states for ACA exchange plans

  Sept. 9, 2022

• OIG report suggests telehealth fraud rare in Medicare

  Sept. 8, 2022

• Walmart, UnitedHealth ink 10-year collaboration deal on value-based care

  Sept. 7, 2022

• CVS nabs home healthcare company Signify for $8B following bidding war

  Sept. 6, 2022

• Molina, Elevance nab Iowa Medicaid contracts on heels of California win

  Sept. 1, 2022

• Oscar loses big tech customer amid platform implementation snags

  Aug. 31, 2022

• Walgreens completes majority stake acquisition in CareCentrix

  Aug. 31, 2022

• FTC sues data broker Kochava for selling data that could track clinic visits

  Aug. 30, 2022

• Biden administration makes record-high investment in ACA navigators

  Aug. 29, 2022

• Cigna expanding ACA footprint to 3 new states in 2023

  Aug. 29, 2022

• Molina, Elevance, Centene win big with Medicaid contracts in California

  Aug. 26, 2022

• Amazon Care to shut down by year’s end as corporate customers don’t see value

  Aug. 25, 2022

• Cyberattacks refocusing from large health systems to smaller hospitals, specialty clinics

  Aug. 25, 2022

• Medicare Advantage lobby rebuts senator’s inquiry into ‘potentially deceptive’ marketing tactics

  Aug. 24, 2022

• Texas judge blocks HHS guidance on emergency abortion care

  Aug. 24, 2022

• Merger with SCL Health spurs Intermountain to $2.7B in net income

  Aug. 23, 2022

• Biden admin adds 1.8M extra doses to monkeypox vaccine supply as New York urges more aid

  Aug. 19, 2022

• Electronic data sharing between physicians and public health agencies rare, new ONC data finds

  Aug. 18, 2022

• CDC, amid criticism for COVID-19 response, plans reorganization as public health threats grow

  Aug. 18, 2022

• Payers, hospitals pleased as Biden signs sweeping health bill into law

  Aug. 17, 2022

• Providence posts $424M operating loss on heels of restructuring plan

  Aug. 16, 2022

• Oscar Health pauses full-service tech deals amid implementation woes

  Aug. 12, 2022

• Amazon to offer behavioral health services through Ginger partnership

  Aug. 11, 2022

• Cerner agrees to pay $1.9M to settle racial discrimination case

  Aug. 10, 2022

• Clover Health’s Toy to step up as CEO as insurtech bolsters revenue

  Aug. 9, 2022

• No ‘slam dunk fix’ in HIPAA privacy law to protect abortion patients

  Aug. 5, 2022

• Hospitals have low level of accountability for connected device breaches

  Aug. 4, 2022

• Abortion clinics go mobile, seeking flexibility amid patchwork state restrictions

  Aug. 1, 2022

• Teladoc shares tumble amid weak guidance, inflation headwinds

  July 28, 2022

• States mixed on how to improve Medicaid unwinding with PHE end date unknown

  July 28, 2022

• UHS net income cut in half as system predicts COVID impact will persist through 2022

  July 26, 2022

• UHS explores joint ventures, aggressive managed care negotiations as costs increase

  July 26, 2022

• Amazon will see you now: reading between the lines of the One Medical acquisition

  July 25, 2022

• Teladoc names ex-Providence executive as new COO, filling vacancy

  July 25, 2022

• Amazon to buy One Medical for $3.9B

  July 21, 2022

• DOJ goes after $1.2B in health fraud, including telehealth, genetic testing

  July 20, 2022

• 'I am terrified': Doctors warn lawmakers of grim health impacts from Roe reversal

  July 20, 2022

• JPMorgan's healthcare arm to invest $30M in plan administrator Centivo

  July 20, 2022

• Lawmakers urge HHS to fine drugmakers restricting 340B drug discounts

  July 18, 2022

• Data breach at debt collector affects almost 2M healthcare patients

  July 18, 2022

• UnitedHealth to offer some drugs, including insulin, at no cost share in 2023

  July 15, 2022

• Teladoc's new CMO Vidya Raman-Tangella on the telehealth giant's clinical strategy and new products

  July 14, 2022

• Clover to enter 13 new markets for 2023 amid rising expenses

  July 14, 2022

• New York files False Claims Act case against Fresenius in whistleblower suit

  July 13, 2022

• Digital health funding is cooling down

  July 12, 2022

• CVS names executive to new chief data, tech officer role

  July 11, 2022

• House oversight committee launches investigation into reproductive health data collection

  July 11, 2022

• CMS finds 'troubling' implicit bias in 3 payment models

  July 8, 2022

• Lawmakers amplify calls for federal agencies to increase data privacy after Dobbs decision

  July 7, 2022

• Major payment vendor data breach, North Korean threat raise ransomware concerns for hospitals

  July 7, 2022

• Feds brokered record $5B in healthcare fraud cases last year

  July 6, 2022

• Democratic senators want stricter HIPAA rules to protect abortion patients

  July 5, 2022

• CMS wants Tennessee to change Trump-approved Medicaid block grant plan

  July 1, 2022

• CMS insurer price transparency rule has taken effect. Signs are good for compliance

  July 1, 2022

• Biden signs law requiring more VA transparency on EHR rollout costs

  June 30, 2022

• UHS lowers financial outlook on 'unfavorable' operating environment, making good on April warning

  June 30, 2022

• House hearing ups ante on Medicare Advantage reform

  June 29, 2022

• Democrat governors urge Congress to prevent 'disastrous' coverage loss by preserving ACA subsidies

  June 29, 2022

• Following Roe ruling, Biden administration warns payers they must cover contraception

  June 28, 2022

• Supreme Court rules in favor of HHS in Medicare disproportionate share payments case

  June 27, 2022

• Colorado first state to launch public option via federal waiver

  June 24, 2022

• Epic to join TEFCA — 'One of our more significant interoperability projects'

  June 22, 2022

• Tenet launches joint venture with urology network as system further scales ASC business

  June 22, 2022

• Walgreens Health Corners network swells with new Buckeye partnership in Ohio

  June 21, 2022

• As cross-state telemedicine waivers expire, virtual care advocates focus on long-term policy changes

  June 21, 2022

• Washington ups pressure on PBMs with more aggressive FTC policy, congressional ask for GAO study

  June 21, 2022

• CVS appoints new chief strategy officer

  June 17, 2022

• Anthem launches Wellpoint health plan, Carelon health services brands

  June 16, 2022

• Finances of older Americans being dinged by high health costs, survey finds

  June 15, 2022

• Despite rosier trust fund outlook, time running out to stabilize Medicare funding, researchers warn

  June 13, 2022

• FTC hits UnitedHealth, LHC with another request for information on $5.4B buy

  June 13, 2022

• Oracle announces plans to create national health record database on heels of Cerner deal

  June 10, 2022

• 2 million patients' data exposed in cyberattack on New England health services provider

  June 9, 2022

• CMS issues first price transparency fines to 2 Georgia hospitals

  June 9, 2022

• Amwell appoints ex-Advocate Aurora exec as chief medical officer

  June 8, 2022

• Oracle closes $28B buy of 'huge growth engine' Cerner

  June 8, 2022

• FTC launches investigation into PBMs; CVS, UnitedHealth, Cigna and more hit with requests for data

  June 7, 2022

• E-prescribing network Surescripts appoints new CEO

  June 7, 2022

• Oak Street to enter 21st state with launch of Colorado clinics

  June 7, 2022

• Teladoc hit with class-action suit alleging it misled investors

  June 6, 2022

• Trustees' report shows additional breathing room for Medicare solvency, though concerns remain

  June 3, 2022

• Rite Aid forays into care delivery for rural seniors with new Homeward partnership

  June 2, 2022

• Ascension taps current chief data officer as new CIO

  June 1, 2022

• PBM practices are keeping consumers from generics savings, white paper finds

  June 1, 2022

• Change shares peek at 2023 as UnitedHealth merger trial looms

  May 31, 2022

• HHS asks for more information blocking authority from Congress

  May 27, 2022

• Healthcare spending could drop $11.4B next year if ACA premium subsidies expire, research finds

  May 26, 2022

• Clover Health appoints Scott Leffler as CFO following role turnover

  May 26, 2022

• Civica taps current COO to succeed VanTrieste as chief executive

  May 25, 2022

• Employees cause more cyber breaches in healthcare than other industries, report finds

  May 24, 2022

• Cedars-Sinai names UCLA physician as chief health equity officer

  May 23, 2022

• VA EHR implementation facing patient data, access concerns, audit finds

  May 12, 2022

• Oscar Health withdraws from 2 states

  May 11, 2022

• Amwell Q1 net loss widens on costs to expand Converge platform

  May 10, 2022

• Investment losses, COVID-19 costs drive Kaiser to $961M net loss

  May 9, 2022

• Nonprofit break-off drives Sutter to net loss, as system faces year full of labor negotiations

  May 6, 2022

• Allscripts CEO Paul Black steps down after a decade

  May 6, 2022

• Hospitals, PBMs say drugmaker restrictions on 340B discounts stifling finances

  May 5, 2022

• Hospital, payer, IT groups urge Congress to overturn ban on unique patient identifier

  May 5, 2022

• Membership growth drives CVS profit up, despite less help from testing, vaccinations

  May 4, 2022

• Biden admin suspends Georgia plan to let private sector run ACA marketplace

  May 2, 2022

• 'Very false and misleading' criticisms over direct contracting stoked model controversy, stakeholders say

  April 29, 2022

• Teladoc records $6.6B impairment charge on Livongo acquisition, spurring record net loss

  April 27, 2022

• Does telemedicine result in duplicative care? Depends on the patient, study suggests

  April 27, 2022

• Tenet says 'cybersecurity incident' disrupted hospital operations

  April 26, 2022

• UnitedHealth plans to sell Change's claims editing unit for $2.2B to aid merger

  April 26, 2022

• Teladoc names new chief medical officer

  April 25, 2022

• Biden admin drops challenge to Texas Medicaid waiver

  April 25, 2022

• Humana to sell majority stake in Kindred hospice arm to PE firm for $2.8B

  April 22, 2022

• DOJ cracks down on 'largest and most wide-ranging' COVID-19 fraud

  April 21, 2022

• House Democrats urge Biden admin to curtail short-term plan access

  April 20, 2022

• Traveling Kaiser members get access to Cigna providers under new deal

  April 20, 2022

• Supreme Court throws out Medicaid work requirement cases

  April 19, 2022

• Bright Health exits 6 states amid financial, operational woes

  April 18, 2022

• Global digital health funding reaches 6-quarter low, at $10.4B

  April 14, 2022

• UnitedHealth expects to 'successfully overcome' DOJ challenge to Change acquisition

  April 14, 2022

• Community health centers facing acute workforce loss

  April 13, 2022

• HHS to request provider data on billing practices under new White House plan to ease medical debt

  April 12, 2022

• Walmart opening 5 health 'superstores' in delayed Florida launch

  April 5, 2022

• Surprisingly, physician burnout could contribute to slightly better outcomes, new study suggests

  April 4, 2022

• Surprise medical bills rank as public's second-highest financial worry, survey finds

  March 31, 2022

• Hospitals bet big on venture capital amid COVID-19 revenue flux

  March 30, 2022

• UnitedHealth to buy home health business LHC for $5.4B

  March 30, 2022

• US health spending growth decelerated in pandemic's second year

  March 29, 2022

• Google launches new search tool for provider appointments, seeks FDA approval for Fitbit feature

  March 25, 2022

• ONC head Micky Tripathi on info-blocking complaints, provider penalties and future of TEFCA

  March 25, 2022

• Record 14.5M Americans signed up for ACA coverage this year

  March 24, 2022

• The case for hybrid care models

  March 22, 2022

• 'On high alert': Hospitals wary of cyber threats from Russia-Ukraine war

  March 18, 2022

• What's holding up hospital at home?

  March 17, 2022

• How can hospitals improve staff retention? Tech and training, experts say

  March 17, 2022

• New app, streamlined EHR: how Athenahealth is tackling 2022, according to its chief product officer

  March 16, 2022

• 'The promise it really brings': talking TEFCA with Sequoia Project CEO Mariann Yeager

  March 15, 2022

• Payer-to-payer data exchange rule to be published 'soon,' CMS head says at #HIMSS22

  March 15, 2022

• Google to integrate search, summary tools within Meditech EHR in next 9 months

  March 15, 2022

• What is consumerism amid COVID-19?

  March 14, 2022

• 5 can't-miss HIMSS22 panels

  March 11, 2022

• Amwell partners with electronics giant LG to develop digital health tools

  March 10, 2022

• Hospital ownership affects services provided, study suggests

  March 8, 2022

• Telehealth use increased amid omicron as 2021 drew to a close

  March 7, 2022

• Allscripts selling hospital EHR business to Canadian holding company for $700M

  March 3, 2022

• Teladoc partners with Amazon on smart speaker medical calls

  March 1, 2022

• HHS received almost 300 info blocking claims since April, with majority lodged against providers

  March 1, 2022

• CMS redesigns controversial Medicare direct contracting model

  Feb. 28, 2022

• Teladoc issues strong outlook as 2021 revenue tops $2B

  Feb. 23, 2022

• Ground ambulance costs continue to soar, study finds

  Feb. 22, 2022

• Walgreens, VillageMD on track to open 200 co-branded clinics this year

  Feb. 17, 2022

• DOJ has until Feb. 27 to sue to block UnitedHealth's $8B Change acquisition

  Feb. 16, 2022

• Biden admin awards $55M in virtual care grants to community health centers

  Feb. 15, 2022

• Kaiser sets new record for annual net income with $8.1B

  Feb. 14, 2022

• 'An ever-spiraling upward cycle': nonprofit hospital CEOs paid 8 times more than average worker

  Feb. 11, 2022

• Ascension inks strategic relationship with Labcorp, expanding testing capabilities

  Feb. 10, 2022

• Boosters and test demand — coupled with lower COVID-19 treatment costs — drove CVS profit up 33% in Q4

  Feb. 9, 2022

• Amazon expands virtual care service nationwide as demand surges

  Feb. 9, 2022

• Black women disproportionately concentrated in low-wage, hazardous healthcare jobs, study finds

  Feb. 8, 2022

• Hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections rare and dropping, study suggests

  Feb. 7, 2022

• Congress poised to address mental health crisis — including fining payers for benefit inequities

  Feb. 4, 2022

• Senators pinpoint MA oversight, cutting drug costs to address looming Medicare insolvency

  Feb. 3, 2022

• Anthem relies on flexible partner-not-build strategy in shift to value

  Feb. 2, 2022

• Cleveland Clinic reports COVID-spurred financial windfall in 2021

  Jan. 31, 2022

• Safety net hospitals report growing financial hit from loss of 340B drug discounts

  Jan. 27, 2022

• Uber Health appoints first chief medical officer

  Jan. 26, 2022

• Anthem doubles profit to $1.1B, issues conservative 2022 guidance

  Jan. 26, 2022

• The shifting digital health investment landscape in 2022

  Jan. 25, 2022

• Insurers falling seriously short in mental health, substance use disorder benefits, federal departments say

  Jan. 25, 2022

• Georgia sues Biden administration over Medicaid work requirement rollback

  Jan. 24, 2022

• The future of ONC's interoperability framework hinges on adoption. But the agency — and industry — is optimistic

  Jan. 21, 2022

• IBM to sell Watson Health division to private equity firm

  Jan. 21, 2022

• Study finds racial bias in how clinicians describe patients in medical records

  Jan. 20, 2022

• UnitedHealth reiterates MA growth expectations for 2022 as profits eclipse $4B

  Jan. 19, 2022

• Biden administration publishes long-awaited TEFCA interoperability framework

  Jan. 18, 2022

• Providers concerned about staffing shortages post-SCOTUS vaccination mandate ruling

  Jan. 14, 2022

• Medical cost growth trailed that of other industries in 2021

  Jan. 13, 2022

• Teladoc ups revenue, visit expectations for 2021

  Jan. 11, 2022

• Digital health funding reaches record $29.1B in 2021

  Jan. 11, 2022

• Becerra orders CMS to reassess Medicare premiums after Aduhelm cost cut

  Jan. 10, 2022

• Telehealth use reached pandemic low in October, per tracker

  Jan. 10, 2022

• Biden admin proposes stricter network adequacy, marketing standards for MA plans

  Jan. 7, 2022

• Vera Whole Health to acquire navigation player Castlight in $370M deal, including Anthem investment

  Jan. 6, 2022

• Molina closes $60M acquisition of Cigna's Medicaid contracts in Texas

  Jan. 5, 2022

• UnitedHealthcare permanently shelves controversial ER coverage changes following confusion

  Jan. 4, 2022

• Huge variance in state costs for complex hospitalizations from COVID-19, analysis finds

  Dec. 15, 2021

• Humana, Centene sue slate of drugmakers, alleging anticompetitive practices to protect HIV drug monopoly

  Dec. 14, 2021

• Employers report highest annual increase in per-employee health costs in over a decade

  Dec. 13, 2021

• New CVS primary care locations to include physicians for first time

  Dec. 10, 2021

• Senate passes legislation to avoid Medicare cuts in year-end sprint

  Dec. 8, 2021

• Medicare Advantage quality bonus program hasn't improved quality, study finds

  Dec. 8, 2021

• Bright Health nabs $750M capital infusion with help from new investor (and competitor) Cigna

  Dec. 8, 2021

• COVID-19 drops out of top telehealth diagnoses in September even as virtual care use rises

  Dec. 7, 2021

• Medicare telehealth visits increased 63-fold from 2019 to 2020, new government data shows

  Dec. 6, 2021

• CVS, Microsoft ink alliance to develop digital health, personalized products

  Dec. 2, 2021

• VA to resume Cerner medical record implementation early next year with new leadership

  Dec. 2, 2021

• Hospital lobbying fails to stop looming Medicare cuts in year-end proposal

  Dec. 1, 2021

• Patient willingness for telehealth high, but in-person care perceived as more valuable, research suggests

  Dec. 1, 2021

• UnitedHealthcare to appeal after jury awards TeamHealth $60M in damages

  Nov. 30, 2021

• UPMC more than quadruples net income to $1.2B amid returning care and investment gains

  Nov. 29, 2021

• Weak investment markets drive Cleveland Clinic's income down 30%

  Nov. 24, 2021

• Anesthesiologists say Blue Cross NC 'abusing' surprise billing ban to drive down rates

  Nov. 23, 2021

• EHR vendor Athenahealth bought out in $17B private equity deal

  Nov. 22, 2021

• CVS unveils new health-focused retail strategy, explicit move into primary care

  Nov. 19, 2021

• Biden admin proposes wide-reaching drug data collection in fourth surprise billing rule

  Nov. 18, 2021

• Insurtechs notched feverishly high MLRs in Q3. But it's not necessarily a mark of poor cost management

  Nov. 17, 2021

• CommonSpirit continuing to pursue Midwest deal as delta pressures operations

  Nov. 17, 2021

• Providence posts operating loss amid delta surge

  Nov. 16, 2021

• Biogen's pricey Alzheimer's drug contributes to major Medicare premium hikes

  Nov. 15, 2021

• Delta surge spurs Amwell's urgent care growth as specialty, behavioral visits drop off

  Nov. 11, 2021

• Health centers raise alarm about rolling back Medicaid coverage post-public health emergency

  Nov. 10, 2021

• Oak Street faces DOJ inquiry into third-party marketing, transportation relationships

  Nov. 9, 2021

• Kaiser's operating margin dwindles as COVID-19 expenses, labor costs rise

  Nov. 8, 2021

• Controversial UnitedHealth-Change tie-up gets new deadline for DOJ review

  Nov. 4, 2021

• Iora boosts One Medical's 50% revenue growth, but medical costs ding Q3 bottom line

  Nov. 4, 2021

• COVID-19 medical costs drag Aetna's commercial business, but CVS still posts $1.6B in Q3 profit

  Nov. 3, 2021

• Why are women more likely to use telehealth?

  Nov. 2, 2021

• Federal data shows ACA, Medicaid coverage kept uninsured rate steady as open enrollment kicks off

  Nov. 1, 2021

• Cerner narrows strategic focus as Feinberg takes reins

  Oct. 29, 2021

• Teladoc plans to take on risk in primary care, expand program to hospital clients

  Oct. 28, 2021

• LifePoint, Kindred spinning off new 79-hospital entity at acquisition's close

  Oct. 27, 2021

• A look at Teladoc's primary care strategy from its head of US group health

  Oct. 27, 2021

• Cigna expands telehealth benefits for employer-covered lives, including new virtual-first plan

  Oct. 26, 2021

• Large purchaser coalition PBGH forms new venture to lower employer health costs, starting with PBM launch

  Oct. 25, 2021

• Oak Street Health buys specialty telemed provider for $130M

  Oct. 21, 2021

• UnitedHealthcare to launch virtual-first primary care plan by end of year, COO says

  Oct. 19, 2021

• Amazon teases 5 more cities to get virtual Amazon Care offering this year

  Oct. 19, 2021

• Microsoft integrates health-specific cloud offering with Cerner EHR

  Oct. 19, 2021

• One Medical elbows into chronic condition management with new program

  Oct. 18, 2021

• Doctor on Demand, Grand Rounds rebrand as Included Health to compete in crowded benefits space

  Oct. 18, 2021

• Walgreens doubles stake in provider network VillageMD with $5.2B investment

  Oct. 14, 2021

• UnitedHealth, with profit up 29%, expects contested Change acquisition to close early 2022

  Oct. 14, 2021

• Best Buy's latest health acquisition builds on plan to expand at-home care

  Oct. 12, 2021

• 'A quiet suffering': Primary care struggles with COVID-19 strain, telemedicine rollbacks

  Oct. 11, 2021

• Optum inks deal with largest health system to date, SSM Health

  Oct. 8, 2021

• Teladoc expands virtual primary care pilot to plans nationwide

  Oct. 7, 2021

• How Morgan Health hopes to finally move the needle on employer health costs: 5 insights from a chat with the venture's CEO

  Oct. 7, 2021

• AMA calls out shrinking payer competition amid rising antitrust interest in Washington

  Sept. 29, 2021

• Free insurance under COBRA for Americans without job-based coverage ends Thursday

  Sept. 29, 2021

• Delta pressure on US hospitals dragged August operations, Kaufman Hall finds

  Sept. 27, 2021

• 6 drug companies could face steep fines for violating 340B law

  Sept. 24, 2021

• Quarter of providers saw mortality rates rise after ransomware attacks, survey finds

  Sept. 23, 2021

• Sutter kicks off nationwide CEO search as Sarah Krevans announces retirement

  Sept. 23, 2021

• AHA-backed study predicts hospitals could lose $54B in profit this year

  Sept. 21, 2021

• HCA to acquire 5 Utah hospitals from Steward Health Care

  Sept. 21, 2021

• CommonSpirit's net income jumps to $5.5B in 2021, reversing major COVID-19 loss

  Sept. 20, 2021

• In rare move, DOJ intervenes in MA fraud case against data mining company

  Sept. 15, 2021

• Preventable hospitalization costs among unvaccinated patients surged to $3.7B in August, KFF says

  Sept. 14, 2021

• Insurers to disclose relationships with brokers, agents in new CMS proposed rule

  Sept. 13, 2021

• Hospital execs see delta pressure dragging into early fourth quarter: Jefferies poll

  Sept. 10, 2021

• Telehealth claims drop to lowest level since before pandemic, Fair Health finds

  Sept. 9, 2021

• Biden admin shells out $452M to boost state reinsurance programs

  Sept. 8, 2021

• Hospital telehealth leveling off at one-fifth of medical appointments, research finds

  Sept. 7, 2021

• Medicare insolvency still expected by 2026, unchanged by COVID-19, trustees say

  Sept. 1, 2021

• Hospital lobby urges Congress to extend Medicare cut relief

  Sept. 1, 2021

• Sutter to pay $90M in largest False Claims Act settlement against a health system for alleged MA fraud

  Aug. 31, 2021

• Mayo Clinic, Alphabet's Verily partner to build clinical decision support tools

  Aug. 27, 2021

• Headspace, Ginger to merge, creating $3B mental health company

  Aug. 26, 2021

• Cigna to expand ACA footprint to 3 new states, 93 new counties next year

  Aug. 26, 2021

• Unvaccinated COVID-19 hospitalizations costing US healthcare system billions, KFF says

  Aug. 24, 2021

• Google disbands health unit as chief departs for Cerner

  Aug. 23, 2021

• Google Health's David Feinberg named Cerner CEO

  Aug. 20, 2021

• AHA moves to shift cost blame to health plans in letter to antitrust regulators

  Aug. 19, 2021

• Payments to MA plans raised overall Medicare spend by $7B in 2019, analysis finds

  Aug. 18, 2021

• Biden administration invests $19M to bolster rural telehealth

  Aug. 18, 2021

• Centene awarded Ohio Medicaid contract following $88M settlement

  Aug. 17, 2021

• UnitedHealthcare loses Medicare Advantage overpayment suit

  Aug. 16, 2021

• AI gains steam, though some execs still not sold at HIMSS21

  Aug. 13, 2021

• Predicting the future of healthcare: 10 takeaways from HIMSS21

  Aug. 13, 2021

• 8 insights from a chat with Joe DeVivo, Teladoc's head of hospitals and health systems

  Aug. 12, 2021

• Health equity takes center stage at HIMSS21

  Aug. 11, 2021

• Should healthcare organizations pay to settle a ransomware attack? Experts weigh in at HIMSS21

  Aug. 11, 2021

• Q&A with Philips' head of connected healthcare on new products, hospital tech adoption in the COVID-19 era

  Aug. 11, 2021

• HHS 'making progress' on disincentives for providers found info blocking, ONC head says: HIMSS21

  Aug. 10, 2021

• JPM venture arm Morgan Health invests $50M in value-based primary care player Vera

  Aug. 6, 2021

• 5 must-watch panels at an unprecedented HIMSS21

  Aug. 5, 2021

• OIG audit targets Aetna’s Medicare Advantage plans as government cracks down on fraud

  Aug. 5, 2021

• DOJ reportedly considering suit to block UnitedHealth-Change tie-up

  Aug. 5, 2021

• CVS profit dips to $2.8B as patients return, COVID-19 costs persist

  Aug. 4, 2021

• CMS axes hospital price transparency mandate from 2022 inpatient payment rule

  Aug. 3, 2021

• Primary care docs, facing 'existential' threat, fear for profession's future

  Aug. 2, 2021

• Cerner reports $1.5B in revenue, raises full-year guidance

  July 30, 2021

• Amwell snaps up 2 digital health startups in $320M longitudinal, behavioral care bid

  July 29, 2021

• VA pauses embattled Cerner EHR rollout for 6 months in major revamp

  July 22, 2021

• Medical debt overtakes nonmedical as largest source in collections. COVID-19 may be making it worse.

  July 21, 2021

• Black patients have worse safety outcomes than White patients at the same hospital, study finds

  July 20, 2021

• Patient volume rebound spurs HCA to $1.7B net income in Q2

  July 20, 2021

• How close is quantum computing in healthcare?

  July 19, 2021

• Health tracking tech revenue to reach $13B this year amid sustained consumer demand

  July 16, 2021

• UnitedHealth brings in $71B in revenue, biding time on Biogen Alzheimer's drug coverage call

  July 15, 2021

• Long-awaited interoperability framework TEFCA to go live in 2022, ONC says

  July 14, 2021

• Microsoft, Teladoc partner on virtual care integration for hospitals

  July 14, 2021

• Women teaching internal medicine paid far less than men, study finds

  July 13, 2021

• Telehealth use stabilizing at 38 times pre-COVID-19 levels, McKinsey says

  July 12, 2021

• Telehealth use falls nationally for third month in a row: Fair Health

  July 8, 2021

• Digital health funding in 2021 smashes past year's record with $14.7B

  July 7, 2021

• Cleveland Clinic-owned hospital system pays $21M to settle False Claims allegations

  July 6, 2021

• CMS unveils new ESRD payment model in health equity push

  July 2, 2021

• First of surprise billing ban rules mum on arbitration details

  July 1, 2021

• Oklahoma Medicaid expansion kicks in, making eligible 190K low-income Americans

  July 1, 2021

• Home health giant Amedisys to acquire hospital-at-home startup Contessa Health for $250M

  July 1, 2021

• Anthem completes acquisition of Puerto Rico-based MA, Medicaid plans

  June 30, 2021

• San Diego sues Molina, Kaiser, Centene's HealthNet over alleged 'ghost networks'

  June 28, 2021

• Half of ambulance rides could result in surprise bill, KFF finds

  June 25, 2021

• More than 1/3 of health organizations hit by ransomware last year, report finds

  June 24, 2021

• Biden admin 'absolutely supportive' of telehealth once crisis ebbs, Becerra says

  June 24, 2021

• CMS releases $20M in grants to bolster state-based marketplaces

  June 23, 2021

• Record 1 in 4 Americans now covered by Medicaid, CHIP

  June 22, 2021

• In latest merger bid, Beaumont seeks union with Spectrum Health to create $13B system

  June 18, 2021

• Mobile health apps have 'serious problems' with patient privacy, study warns

  June 16, 2021

• MedPAC: Overhaul MA payments and streamline CMMI models

  June 16, 2021

• Anthem joins insurer-backed generics effort CivicaScript

  June 16, 2021

• Centene shells out $143M to settle PBM disputes in Ohio, Mississippi

  June 15, 2021

• Majority of hospitals not complying with price transparency rule: JAMA

  June 15, 2021

• Humana acquires Onehome to pursue value-based home health strategy

  June 14, 2021

• UnitedHealthcare delays controversial ER policy following backlash

  June 10, 2021

• Health data giants Ciox, Datavant merge in $7B deal

  June 10, 2021

• One Medical and Iora serve radically different populations. Here's why the $2.1B tie-up might make sense.

  June 9, 2021

• Telehealth use dropped again in March, but at slower rate

  June 9, 2021

• Apple unveils new health features aimed at patient-doctor data exchange

  June 8, 2021

• Private equity group buys medical supply giant Medline for $34B in biggest LBO in decade

  June 7, 2021

• CMMI's Fowler: More mandatory payment models likely

  June 3, 2021

• More hospitals letting patients send data to third-party apps: ONC

  June 3, 2021

• London-based digital health startup Babylon to go public in $3.6B blank check deal

  June 3, 2021

• Walgreens completes sale of drug wholesale business to AmerisourceBergen for $6.5B

  June 2, 2021

• Privately insured face worse access, higher costs than those in public plans: JAMA report

  June 1, 2021

• Doctor On Demand, Grand Rounds purchase LGBTQ care navigator Included Health

  May 27, 2021

• Investments drive Ascension to income of $957M, despite dampened patient volumes

  May 27, 2021

• HCA pens pact with Google Cloud to create new clinical decision-making platform

  May 26, 2021

• Senate confirms Chiquita Brooks-LaSure as head of CMS

  May 25, 2021

• April hospital margin gains contrast steep losses from start of COVID-19, not improved performance

  May 24, 2021

• After Haven flop, JPMorgan Chase unveils solo healthcare venture

  May 21, 2021

• Anthem, Epic launch data-sharing partnership

  May 20, 2021

• More than 1 in 4 Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth between summer and fall last year

  May 20, 2021

• CommonSpirit and Essentia call off 14-hospital deal following nurse complaints

  May 19, 2021

• Clover net loss balloons due to higher-than-expected medical costs

  May 18, 2021

• Eli Lilly fires back against HHS order to repay providers for violating 340B

  May 18, 2021

• Medical billing startup Cedar to acquire Ooda Health for $425M, moving into insurance market

  May 18, 2021

• One Medical losses double expectations in Q1 as chain preps for Baylor Scott & White partnership

  May 14, 2021

• Amwell growth slows in Q1 amid investor fears of telehealth deceleration

  May 13, 2021

• Despite $64M net loss, Oak Street forecasts continued growth in 2021

  May 11, 2021

• Providers supportive of push to overhaul HIPAA, but air serious concerns about data privacy, timing

  May 10, 2021

• Walmart acquires telehealth provider MeMD, upping competition in telehealth space

  May 7, 2021

• AI expected to supplant telehealth as top investment priority in next few years, survey finds

  May 6, 2021

• Telehealth use dropped in February for first time since September

  May 5, 2021

• CVS profit up 10%, but warns vaccine hesitancy could dampen earnings

  May 4, 2021

• Full speed ahead on interoperability: Q&A with ONC head Micky Tripathi

  May 3, 2021

• COVID-19 spurred growing profitability in insurance markets last year, KFF says

  May 3, 2021

• Teladoc posts wider loss, but CEO brash on fending off rivals

  April 29, 2021

• Humana snaps up remaining stake in home health giant Kindred for $5.7B

  April 28, 2021

• Hospital margins remain narrow in March as COVID-19 financial strain lingers

  April 27, 2021

• Senate panel split on Brooks-LaSure nomination after Biden pulls Texas Medicaid waiver

  April 23, 2021

• HCA Q1 profit more than doubles to $1.4B

  April 22, 2021

• Value-based care at 'critical juncture,' new CMMI chief says

  April 20, 2021

• Health funding shatters records in Q1, hits all-time high of $31.6B

  April 20, 2021

• 3 takeaways from CHIME21: EHRs, Big Tech and VCs look to the future of health

  April 19, 2021

• UnitedHealth kicks off Q1 earnings season with 44% profit jump

  April 15, 2021

• Lyft launches non-emergency medical transport — upon patient request

  April 15, 2021

• Anthem, Blackstone, digital health startup K Health launch joint venture to curb costs

  April 14, 2021

• Intermountain buys Utah-based air ambulance company Classic

  April 13, 2021

• Microsoft acquires clinical voice-to-text company Nuance for $19.7B

  April 12, 2021

• CommonSpirit inks deal with women's health startup Tia on primary care network

  April 8, 2021

• Brian Thompson named CEO of UnitedHealthcare

  April 7, 2021

• Verizon latest tech giant to elbow into telehealth space with provider platform

  April 6, 2021

• SOC Telemed acquires acute telehealth vendor Access Physicians for $194M

  April 1, 2021

• One-third of small businesses say health insurance is a top concern during COVID-19: survey

  March 31, 2021

• IBM, Cleveland Clinic launch 10-year quantum computing deal

  March 30, 2021

• DOJ to investigate UnitedHealth's $13B Change buy

  March 29, 2021

• Payer lobbies cheer new bipartisan bill allowing audio-only telehealth in MA

  March 25, 2021

• Uber Health expands prescription delivery to 37 states with ScriptDrop deal

  March 24, 2021

• Reality check: Amazon Care may not be that big of a deal

  March 23, 2021

• VA launches strategic review of beleaguered $16B Cerner EHR project

  March 19, 2021

• AHA urges strict antitrust review of UnitedHealth's $13B Change buy

  March 19, 2021

• Virtual behavioral healthcare skyrocketed last year as COVID-19 stressed US mental health

  March 18, 2021

• Amazon Care goes nationwide with telehealth, courts outside employers

  March 17, 2021

• Independent primary care docs more financially stable, but fed up with vaccine exclusion

  March 16, 2021

• Despite pandemic, MedPAC advises few changes to 2022 provider payments

  March 16, 2021

• Doctor on Demand, Grand Rounds merge to create multibillion-dollar digital health company

  March 16, 2021

• Ohio sues Centene, alleging PBM practices led to millions in overpayments

  March 12, 2021

• Biden admin eyeing vaccine passports, ONC head says

  March 11, 2021

• 4 key elements of the COVID-19 relief legislation for providers and payers

  March 11, 2021

• Vast majority of hospitals say they have an AI strategy, up from just half last year

  March 10, 2021

• CMS pushes back kidney care payment model start date to January 2022

  March 10, 2021

• Non-operating income helps Providence claw back into black for 2020

  March 9, 2021

• COVID-19 among top US telehealth diagnoses for first time

  March 8, 2021

• Support for telehealth Medicare reimbursement gains steam in Congress

  March 3, 2021

• One Medical CEO says 'we are not perfect,' vows to improve amid Congress probe

  March 2, 2021

• Former Senate aide Elizabeth Fowler to lead CMS innovation center

  March 1, 2021

• One Medical denies COVID-19 vaccine favoritism, gives 'muted' outlook

  March 1, 2021

• Cigna health services arm Evernorth completes buy of telehealth vendor MDLive

  Feb. 26, 2021

• Ascension expands pilot of Google EHR search tool

  Feb. 25, 2021

• Teladoc guides to softer 2021, suggesting easing of pandemic boom

  Feb. 25, 2021

• SCOTUS drops Medicaid work requirement arguments at Biden administration's request

  Feb. 23, 2021

• Oscar Health eyes $6.7B valuation with upcoming IPO

  Feb. 22, 2021

• Google opens new office near Mayo Clinic campus to galvanize tech collaboration

  Feb. 18, 2021

• Don Rucker reflects on highs and lows of tenure as ONC head and the future of health IT

  Feb. 17, 2021

• Anthem-backed digital startup Sharecare goes public in $3.9B blank check deal

  Feb. 17, 2021

• CVS to jump back into individual ACA markets in 2022

  Feb. 16, 2021

• Cerner bets worst of COVID-19 hits in rear view mirror, eyes pivot to data focus

  Feb. 11, 2021

• Oklahoma selects 4 private payers to manage Medicaid for $2B, faces legal suit

  Feb. 9, 2021

• Pandemic habits could cause US health spending to decelerate over 2 decades, Deloitte predicts

  Feb. 8, 2021

• UnitedHealth CEO Dave Wichmann steps down, replaced by Optum head Andrew Witty

  Feb. 4, 2021

• Telehealth use during COVID-19 varied across specialties, was rarer among low-income patients, study finds

  Feb. 3, 2021

• Medicare buy-in for older adults could cut health costs, increase coverage value: Urban Institute

  Feb. 3, 2021

• HCA beats Wall Street expectations in Q4 with revenue up 6% despite low volume

  Feb. 2, 2021

• 3 big predictions for digital health in 2021

  Jan. 29, 2021

• Anthem cuts 2021 outlook, as Q4 profits fall 40% on care resurgence

  Jan. 27, 2021

• Hims & Hers goes public in $1.6B SPAC deal

  Jan. 21, 2021

• UnitedHealth returns to normal care levels in Q4, posts $15B in profit for 2020

  Jan. 20, 2021

• Healthcare funding shatters records in 2020, helped by COVID-19

  Jan. 20, 2021

• Here’s which Trump-era health policies Biden could roll back — without help from Congress

  Jan. 20, 2021

• Forging trust in AI, sustaining the virtual care boom and other CES takeaways

  Jan. 19, 2021

• CMS finalizes prior authorization rule payers slam as 'half-baked'

  Jan. 15, 2021

• 'Really difficult nut to crack': MedPAC torn over telehealth regs post-COVID-19

  Jan. 15, 2021

• Google calls Fitbit acquisition complete despite ongoing DOJ review

  Jan. 14, 2021

• Talkspace to go public via SPAC in $1.4B deal

  Jan. 14, 2021

• Ascension divests handful of Wisconsin hospitals, clinics to nonprofit Aspirus Health

  Jan. 13, 2021

• Teladoc projects 2020 revenue doubling to $1.1B

  Jan. 12, 2021

• HHS finalizes regulatory review rule, though more lenient than proposed

  Jan. 8, 2021

• Kaiser Permanente ranked No. 1 in consumer satisfaction, Insure.com finds

  Jan. 6, 2021

• Not enough time, not enough clarity: Payers push back on CMS prior authorization rule

  Jan. 6, 2021

• Fanfare then fizzle: Amazon, JPM, Berkshire shutter Haven after 3 years

  Jan. 4, 2021

• CMS should tweak wage index adjustment to help rural hospitals, OIG says

  Jan. 4, 2021

• CMS finalizes rule to ease value-based arrangements for prescription drugs

  Dec. 22, 2020

• Provider-friendly surprise billing fix, more funds for hospitals in year-end spending bill

  Dec. 21, 2020

• Centene buys specialty pharmacy Pantherx for undisclosed sum

  Dec. 15, 2020

• Trump admin defends national stockpile as PPE, equipment shortages persist

  Dec. 14, 2020

• Bipartisan agreement on provider-friendly surprise billing deal ups chance of passage

  Dec. 14, 2020

• Trump admin proposes easing HIPAA to foster value-based care, COVID-19 contact tracing

  Dec. 11, 2020

• Amazon dips its toes into health data manipulation with HealthLake

  Dec. 10, 2020

• Centene closes buy of analytics firm Apixio

  Dec. 9, 2020

• Oak Street to expand into 2 new states early next year

  Dec. 9, 2020

• Company of the Year: Teladoc

  Dec. 9, 2020

• Trump admin rolls out effort to standardize patient address by close of 2021

  Dec. 3, 2020

• CMS makes some telehealth coverage permanent, finalizes specialty rate cuts

  Dec. 2, 2020

• Google launches interoperability program in advance of data-sharing deadlines

  Dec. 1, 2020

• 5 major airlines to roll out digital health passport for travelers next month

  Nov. 30, 2020

• Payer participation in ACA exchanges rises for third year in a row: KFF

  Nov. 25, 2020

• Healthcare deals in Q4 expected to fall from record-setting Q3, market research firm predicts

  Nov. 25, 2020

• In last minute agenda push, Trump admin rolls back Stark, anti-kickback rules

  Nov. 23, 2020

• Banking on acuity: Tenet, UHS execs optimistic about Q4

  Nov. 20, 2020

• In first report since IPO, Amwell sees revenue up 80% year over year

  Nov. 13, 2020

• Epic, NextGen highest rated acute care EHR vendors for interoperability, Klas finds

  Nov. 12, 2020

• Primary care networks One Medical, Oak Street Health report Q3 revenue jumps

  Nov. 11, 2020

• Top picks for who could run HHS, CMS under Biden

  Nov. 10, 2020

• 5 issues hospitals want Biden to tackle in his first 100 days

  Nov. 10, 2020

• Centene acquires analytics firm Apixio for undisclosed sum

  Nov. 9, 2020

• CVS' Merlo to depart, replaced by veteran payer exec Karen Lynch

  Nov. 6, 2020

• CMS clears Georgia bid to nix Healthcare.gov, decentralizing ACA marketplace

  Nov. 2, 2020

• Allscripts Q3 revenue misses Wall Street forecasts amid sustained COVID-19 headwinds

  Oct. 30, 2020

• Telehealth claim lines flat following 2 months of declines, Fair Health says

  Oct. 29, 2020

• Second interoperability deadline extension likely final delay, ONC chief says

  Oct. 29, 2020

• Teladoc's $18.5B Livongo acquisition closes in just under 3 months

  Oct. 29, 2020

• Trump admin pushes back interoperability deadline for second time

  Oct. 29, 2020

• Teladoc ups guidance for third quarter in a row as telehealth use holds steady

  Oct. 29, 2020

• First site in embattled $16B Cerner VA project goes live

  Oct. 27, 2020

• COVID-19 cases could be 5% of 2021 admissions, HCA says amid rising Q3 profits

  Oct. 26, 2020

• 'In many ways more challenging:' Tenet loses $197M in COVID-19-slammed Q3

  Oct. 21, 2020

• ACA plan premiums to fall 2% in 2021, CMS says

  Oct. 20, 2020

• CVS wants pharmacy techs to administer COVID-19 vaccine, plans to hire 10,000 more

  Oct. 19, 2020

• Retail's role, focus on equity, value-based pay amid COVID-19: takeaways from HLTH 2020

  Oct. 19, 2020

• The hazy post-pandemic future of telehealth

  Oct. 16, 2020

• CommonSpirit to link physical, behavioral health with Concert deal: HLTH 2020

  Oct. 15, 2020

• CMS expands Medicare emergency telehealth coverage with 11 new services

  Oct. 15, 2020

• Allscripts to sell CarePort care coordination segment for $1.35B

  Oct. 14, 2020

• Teladoc-Livongo make first combined sale to Guidewell Health

  Oct. 13, 2020

• IBM launches COVID-19 health status app: HLTH 2020

  Oct. 13, 2020

• Medicare coronavirus vaccine pay rule predicted by month's end, Verma says: HLTH 2020

  Oct. 13, 2020

• Teladoc sues Amwell, alleging patent infringement

  Oct. 13, 2020

• Kaiser CEO promises strategic shift to stronger focus on equity: HLTH 2020

  Oct. 13, 2020

• In surprise move, HCA to return all $6B in COVID-19 federal aid

  Oct. 9, 2020

• 5 can't-miss panels at HLTH 2020

  Oct. 8, 2020

• Lyft integrates with Epic, exponentially growing NEMT reach

  Oct. 8, 2020

• Walmart enters Medicare broker market, threatening incumbents

  Oct. 7, 2020

• Amid pandemic, specialty telehealth outpaces urgent care, Amwell poll says

  Oct. 6, 2020

• MA startup Clover Health goes public in blank check deal valuing it at $3.7B

  Oct. 6, 2020

• Medicare advisers toy with MA payment overhaul as major payers expand for 2021

  Oct. 5, 2020

• Advocate Aurora, Beaumont call off merger following COVID-19, doctor pushback

  Oct. 2, 2020

• Amwell expands partnership with Tyto Care

  Oct. 1, 2020

• Election 2020: Trump and Biden's starkly diverging views on healthcare

  Oct. 1, 2020

• Telehealth vendor Hims & Hers goes public in blank check deal

  Oct. 1, 2020

• Providers win Medicare loan extension, DSH relief but lose other asks in stop-gap spending law

  Oct. 1, 2020

• HHS launching effort to better track office-based EHR use

  Sept. 30, 2020

• Digital health poised for record Q3, with fast growth in mental, women's health investment

  Sept. 29, 2020

• UHS confirms Sunday ransomware attack, some 250 hospitals still affected

  Sept. 29, 2020

• Trump administration may push back interoperability rules, again: Rucker

  Sept. 28, 2020

• Primary care docs call for federal aid as 1/3 still face significantly low revenue

  Sept. 23, 2020

• CMS to expand ambulance prior authorization model nationwide

  Sept. 23, 2020

• Sam's Club, 98point6 to sell telehealth slightly pricier than vendor's DTC product

  Sept. 22, 2020

• Microsoft Teams integrates with EHRs for provider telehealth

  Sept. 22, 2020

• Walmart details Health superstore expansion, one year after pilot

  Sept. 18, 2020

• 'We feel bullish': Payers look ahead to 2021

  Sept. 17, 2020

• Google-backed Amwell prices upsize IPO above range at $18

  Sept. 17, 2020

• Medical services costs for telehealth could swell to $106B by 2023, vendor predicts

  Sept. 17, 2020

• CMS innovation agency to launch risk-based model for dual eligibles

  Sept. 16, 2020

• In deal with Apple, CVS clients get temporary access to new fitness feature

  Sept. 16, 2020

• Uninsured rate rose to 9.2% in US last year, pre-COVID-19 recession

  Sept. 16, 2020

• Cigna rebrands health services division, including Express Scripts, as Evernorth

  Sept. 16, 2020

• Centene added 1.1M members since March amid COVID-19 job losses

  Sept. 15, 2020

• CMS to ax inpatient data in MA risk scoring by 2022

  Sept. 15, 2020

• CMS kills controversial Medicaid fiscal accountability rule

  Sept. 14, 2020

• Fitbit receives FDA clearance for ECG app

  Sept. 14, 2020

• Employers struggling to calculate 2021 medical cost trends due to COVID-19: Credit Suisse

  Sept. 11, 2020

• West Virginia hospital to pay $50M to settle False Claims Act violations

  Sept. 10, 2020

• Targeted cyberattacks on telehealth vendors skyrocketed along with adoption, report finds

  Sept. 10, 2020

• Cigna expanding footprint in ACA exchanges for 2021

  Sept. 9, 2020

• After 4-decade run, UHS CEO Alan Miller stepping down in January

  Sept. 8, 2020

• Federal COVID-19 cash saved most hospitals from bleakest forecasts: MedPAC

  Sept. 4, 2020

• CBO finds COVID-19 puts Medicare trust fund insolvency just 4 years away

  Sept. 4, 2020

• Telehealth claims dipped second month in a row in June: Fair Health

  Sept. 3, 2020

• Walmart, newly public Oak Street Health launch clinic partnership in Texas

  Sept. 2, 2020

• Apple, Google take front seat on apps in new COVID-19 exposure notifications tech

  Sept. 1, 2020

• Aetna unveils plan nudging members to CVS clinics, pharmacies

  Sept. 1, 2020

• Investment returns boost Cleveland Clinic into the black despite weak Q2 revenue

  Aug. 31, 2020

• COVID-19 insurance crisis may not be as drastic as initially feared: study

  Aug. 28, 2020

• Amazon launches wellness wearable, to compete with Fitbit and Apple Watch

  Aug. 27, 2020

• Investment losses, flagging volume push UPMC into the red in H1

  Aug. 27, 2020

• First platform in embattled VA-Cerner EHR project goes live

  Aug. 26, 2020

• Trump admin delays final rule easing anti-kickback regs until next August

  Aug. 26, 2020

• Brigham and Women's tops consumer hospital ranking poll by NRC Health

  Aug. 25, 2020

• Fitbit launches new smartwatch as EKG feature awaits FDA's OK

  Aug. 25, 2020

• Amwell files IPO with $100M boost from Google

  Aug. 25, 2020

• Many COVID-19 cost-sharing waivers set to expire by October: study

  Aug. 21, 2020

• Uber Health forays into prescription drug delivery

  Aug. 20, 2020

• Lyft claims NEMT program helps Medicaid beneficiary health access

  Aug. 19, 2020

• Threat of financial loss main barrier to value-based model adoption: exec poll

  Aug. 19, 2020

• Two-fifths of working-age adults lacked reliable insurance in first half of 2020, Commonwealth Fund says

  Aug. 19, 2020

• Teladoc-Livongo: Is the first digital health megadeal 'outrageous' or a starter gun for virtual care M&A?

  Aug. 6, 2020

• Virginia first state to fully deploy COVID-19 exposure notification app based on Apple-Google tech

  Aug. 6, 2020

• CVS profit soars to $3B on lower medical utilization

  Aug. 5, 2020

• CMS expands telehealth coverage in physician fee rule following Trump executive order

  Aug. 4, 2020

• Quarter of Medicare members can't access telehealth visits, JAMA studies show

  Aug. 3, 2020

• Allscripts stock surges on mixed Q2 results

  July 31, 2020

• SOC Telemed to be acquired by Healthcare Merger Corp. in blank check deal

  July 30, 2020

• COVID-19 spurs tripling in Teladoc visits to 2.8M, full-year outlook hiked again

  July 29, 2020

• Telehealth made up almost half of all Medicare beneficiaries' primary care use in April

  July 29, 2020

• Humana invests $100M in at-home primary care startup Heal

  July 29, 2020

• UHS posts $252M in income, helped by bailout funds, but withholds full-year guidance

  July 28, 2020

• CMS to begin recouping COVID-19 Medicare loans

  July 27, 2020

• After 6 months of darkness, primary care practices see little light ahead

  July 27, 2020

• 'Weeks where decades happen': Telehealth 6 months into COVID-19

  July 27, 2020

• Diving into telehealth: interviews with executives at Teladoc, Amwell and Doctor on Demand

  July 27, 2020

• Walmart to expand health centers to Florida next year

  July 22, 2020

• UnitedHealthcare gets lowest grades in Leapfrog poll, average plan gets C+

  July 22, 2020

• Direct primary care backers hope COVID-19 entices docs to alternate payment model

  July 21, 2020

• As Congress weighs next COVID-19 relief bill, 4 healthcare sticking points

  July 20, 2020

• Big hospital groups ramp up lobbying for additional relief funds with new polling

  July 17, 2020

• Appeals court upholds Trump admin's expansion of short-term health plans

  July 17, 2020

• UHS partners with home health giant Bayada on at-home services

  July 17, 2020

• UnitedHealth doubles profit in Q2 as MLR plummets to 70.2% amid pandemic

  July 15, 2020

• Amazon launches primary care centers for employees

  July 14, 2020

• Digital health funding shatters records with $6.3B in 1st half of 2020

  July 14, 2020

• UHS finalizes DOJ fraudulent billing case for $122M

  July 13, 2020

• As FCC taps out its coronavirus telehealth program, major nonprofits like Providence cash in

  July 9, 2020

• Walgreens invests $1B in primary care clinics with VillageMD deal

  July 8, 2020

• Here are doctors' offices, hospitals that got COVID-19 paycheck protection loans over $150K

  July 7, 2020

• New hospital rankings show 'elite' facilities struggle with health equity, inclusivity

  July 7, 2020

• Telehealth claim lines increased more than 8,335% in April: Fair Health

  July 6, 2020

• Teladoc closes InTouch acquisition to round out provider offerings

  July 1, 2020

• CVS reportedly creating group purchasing organization for PBM business

  July 1, 2020

• Oklahoma votes to expand Medicaid as COVID-19 surges in state

  July 1, 2020

• DOJ charges execs, others with elaborate $1.4B billing scheme using rural hospitals

  June 30, 2020

• CMS wants to make home health telemedicine permanent

  June 26, 2020

• North Carolina BCBS seeks to keep primary care practices afloat, nudge to value-based care

  June 25, 2020

• Short-term 'junk' plans widely discriminate against those with pre-existing conditions, House probe finds

  June 25, 2020

• CommonSpirit doubles down on primary care with new direct-to-employer partnership

  June 25, 2020

• Fauci: Trump never asked to slow down testing, 'cautiously optimistic' about vaccine by 2021

  June 24, 2020

• CVS launches return-to-work service, including in-house COVID-19 testing option

  June 24, 2020

• Hospital group CEOs pitch more federal aid, looser Medicare loan terms

  June 23, 2020

• Trump admin sitting on $14B for testing, tracing, Democratic senators say

  June 22, 2020

• Virtual care at a virtual conference: Telehealth will remain post-pandemic, experts say at AHIP

  June 19, 2020

• Recovery of medical staffing firms will lag behind hospitals, analysts say

  June 19, 2020

• Senators back sustaining telehealth momentum post pandemic

  June 18, 2020

• Walmart buys medication management tech from startup CareZone

  June 16, 2020

• Hit with surprise COVID-19 test bill, lawmaker pushes Trump admin for guardrails to hold patients harmless

  June 15, 2020

• 1 in 4 workers at high risk for serious COVID-19 illness as states reopen despite surges

  June 15, 2020

• FCC surpasses $100M in CARES telehealth funding approvals as House seeks more oversight

  June 11, 2020

• Professional services revenue plunged nearly 50% in April as pandemic worsened

  June 10, 2020

• Amwell files for IPO — report

  June 5, 2020

• Months into pandemic, Trump admin mandates labs report demographic data of COVID-19 tests

  June 4, 2020

• Cerner sells troubled revenue cycle management arm for $30M

  June 4, 2020

• $250B of all healthcare spend could be digitized, McKinsey estimates

  June 4, 2020

• Pandemic causes expected wearable shipments to plummet by 27M this year

  June 4, 2020

• Governors plead for Trump admin to streamline testing supply distribution

  June 3, 2020

• Pandemic highlights need for unique patient identifier, industry tells ONC

  June 2, 2020

• Citing lack of funding, Oklahoma withdraws planned July 1 Medicaid expansion

  June 1, 2020

• Pathologists most frequent surprise billing offenders, HCCI finds

  May 28, 2020

• Medicare members using telehealth grew 120 times in early weeks of COVID-19 as regulations eased

  May 27, 2020

• Pandemic response complicated by public health agencies' inability to receive data from hospitals

  May 27, 2020

• Over 1,750 Part D, MA plans applied for new CMS insulin model

  May 26, 2020

• Ascension reports loss of $2.7B in Q1

  May 26, 2020

• Omada Health snaps up physical therapy startup Physera for $30M

  May 21, 2020

• Apple-Google COVID-19 contact tracing software released

  May 20, 2020

• Despite $33M in approvals, FCC has sent just 1 provider CARES telehealth funds

  May 20, 2020

• Microsoft launches 1st industry-specific offering in healthcare

  May 20, 2020

• Cigna jumps 52 spots on Fortune 500 off Express Scripts buy

  May 19, 2020

• States brace for 'nearly certain' Medicaid budget shortfalls amid COVID-19

  May 18, 2020

• UnitedHealth, Microsoft launch COVID-19 screening app for employers

  May 15, 2020

• ACOs ask Trump admin for more help to cope with coronavirus

  May 15, 2020

• Doctor on Demand 1st telehealth vendor to move into Medicare Part B as pandemic expands virtual care

  May 14, 2020

• Front-line COVID-19 responders in middle of pack on pay

  May 14, 2020

• 27M Americans may have lost job-based health insurance due to COVID-19 downturn

  May 13, 2020

• Pushback against transparency, patient data plans in ONC's roadmap

  May 12, 2020

• As Trump pushes states to reopen, Fauci warns against lifting COVID-19 restrictions too soon

  May 12, 2020

• Kaiser reports $1.1B net loss in Q1 due to stock market slide

  May 11, 2020

• Bookings a bright spot for Allscripts, despite earnings and revenue miss

  May 7, 2020

• Trump reiterates support to kill ACA — despite pandemic — as House, states file briefs with SCOTUS

  May 6, 2020

• CVS profit rockets up 41%, but warns April COVID-19 hit could persist

  May 6, 2020

• Paying private insurers Medicare rates would tank hospital revenue by 35%, study finds

  May 5, 2020

• 7 states team up to buy $5B in medical equipment, supplies for COVID-19

  May 4, 2020

• Teladoc hikes 2020 guidance after seeing visits double in Q1

  April 30, 2020

• Telehealth startup 98point6 grows membership 16% with 4 major employer deals

  April 30, 2020

• Q&A with Cerner's chief client and services officer on the vendor's Q1, COVID-19

  April 30, 2020

• Cerner bookings drag down top line, guidance cut due to COVID-19

  April 29, 2020

• 5 key pillars of Biden's healthcare plan

  April 28, 2020

• Reimbursement portal opens for providers that test, treat uninsured COVID-19 patients

  April 28, 2020

• CMS hits pause on speeding Medicare payments to docs as COVID-19 funding reaches $175B

  April 27, 2020

• Community oncology practices turn to mergers, private equity to avoid hospital acquisition

  April 24, 2020

• Digital contact tracing needs consumer buy-in, but privacy fears could hamstring efforts

  April 23, 2020

• Medicare still expected to grow to 6% of GDP by 2026, but COVID-19 could speed insolvency

  April 22, 2020

• Trump admin delays interoperability deadlines amid COVID-19

  April 21, 2020

• Google opens up healthcare API to fight COVID-19

  April 21, 2020

• Oklahoma 1st to seek waiver to block grant Medicaid, despite pandemic

  April 21, 2020

• HCA profit down 45% amid COVID-19 volume depression

  April 21, 2020

• 1/5 of primary care practices could close within next month as US mulls reopening economy

  April 20, 2020

• FCC releases 1st round of CARES funds for coronavirus telehealth response

  April 17, 2020

• Public health agencies, commercial labs warn patchy IT infrastructure hobbling COVID-19 response

  April 17, 2020

• CDC to launch clinical reporting app for COVID-19 in May

  April 16, 2020

• Coronavirus drives surge in Teladoc virtual medical visits

  April 15, 2020

• Could coronavirus derail the decades-long shift to value-based care?

  April 15, 2020

• Gottlieb, other ex-HHS officials pitch national COVID-19 surveillance plan

  April 8, 2020

• ONC benchmarks $2.5M for projects promoting interoperability

  April 8, 2020

• $30B in CARES funding to be distributed to hospitals this week, Verma says

  April 8, 2020

• Digital health rakes in record $3.1B in Q1, but COVID-19 slump could loom

  April 7, 2020

• VA pauses Cerner EHR implementation — again — amid COVID-19

  April 6, 2020

• Utah pauses Medicaid work requirements amid COVID-19

  April 3, 2020

• Health jobs plummeted in March despite rising need for healthcare workers

  April 3, 2020

• AHA wants private payers to do more to help hospitals fight COVID-19. Payers say they've done a lot already

  April 2, 2020

• Telehealth, retail clinic use increasing in pivot toward lower-priced medical delivery sites

  March 31, 2020

• Trump administration expedites Medicare payments to providers amid coronavirus

  March 30, 2020

• 'What about us?': Frontline primary care practices fear for survival amid coronavirus

  March 26, 2020

• Coronavirus could hike premiums by double digits next year

  March 25, 2020

• Kaiser Permanente shelves $900M headquarters build

  March 25, 2020

• Nearly 2 dozen states now have Medicaid waivers for coronavirus response

  March 24, 2020

• Telehealth vendors scramble to hire doctors as patient volume soars amid COVID-19

  March 20, 2020

• Direct-to-consumer companies wade into coronavirus testing to fill gap

  March 20, 2020

• Hard-hit Washington state gets CMS green light for Medicaid coronavirus waiver

  March 20, 2020

• Telehealth payment parity in Medicare welcome, but some vendors say it should have come sooner

  March 19, 2020

• HHS considers rolling back interoperability timeline amid COVID-19

  March 18, 2020

• Medicare will now cover telehealth to fight coronavirus

  March 17, 2020

• Disease management firms set to capitalize on Trump admin interoperability push

  March 17, 2020

• Trump administration approves 1st Medicaid waiver to combat coronavirus

  March 17, 2020

• Q&A: ONC chief Don Rucker's thoughts on the final information blocking rule

  March 13, 2020

• Controversial EHR mandate in interoperability rule could threaten hospital Medicare reimbursement

  March 12, 2020

• CVS adds 5 digital health programs for PBM clients

  March 12, 2020

• California accuses healthcare sharing ministry of misleading consumers

  March 11, 2020

• Payers, providers say interoperability rules threaten patient privacy

  March 10, 2020

• Cerner calls interoperability timeline doable. Others aren't so sure

  March 10, 2020

• Long-awaited interoperability rules finalized by Trump admin, prompt industry ire

  March 9, 2020

• HIMSS20 canceled over coronavirus concerns

  March 5, 2020

• HIMSS20 has been canceled. Here are 5 panels we're sad to miss

  March 5, 2020

• Uber Health targets provider pain points with revamped platform

  March 4, 2020

• Payer stocks rebound as Super Tuesday results quell M4A fears

  March 4, 2020

• Amazon's Alexa can now answer simple queries about drugs

  March 3, 2020

• Allscripts eyes margin improvement following $182M loss in 2019

  March 3, 2020

• UPMC topline soars on Highmark truce

  March 2, 2020

• Trump to attend HIMSS20 as organizers prep for coronavirus

  March 2, 2020

• FTC to block Philadelphia area health system merger in 1st big hospital challenge in 3 years

  Feb. 27, 2020

• 'Feeding the flywheel': Teladoc sees opportunity in coronavirus

  Feb. 27, 2020

• Cleveland Clinic's 2019 topline jumps on record patient visits

  Feb. 27, 2020

• Corporate watchdog pegs Centene, CVS CEOs as among most overpaid

  Feb. 26, 2020

• AI clinical documentation player Nuance preps for nationwide expansion

  Feb. 25, 2020

• Tenet closes out 2019 at $243M loss

  Feb. 25, 2020

• HHS issues advice to lower EHR burden as industry awaits interoperability rules

  Feb. 24, 2020

• Provider earnings snapshot: A focus on volume growth

  Feb. 24, 2020

• Choice grows in ACA exchanges, report finds, as Supreme Court mulls effort to kill law

  Feb. 21, 2020

• Opaque pricing, data silos still mar interoperability progress, HITAC says

  Feb. 20, 2020

• CVS swings to $6.6B profit in 2019, buoyed by Aetna

  Feb. 12, 2020

• As SDOH efforts take off, payers try to carve out their role

  Feb. 12, 2020

• Azar touts 2019 greatest hits, glosses over setbacks in state of HHS speech

  Feb. 7, 2020

• Rival surprise billing efforts jockey for attention in election year

  Feb. 7, 2020

• VA facility claimed as 'world's 1st' 5G-enabled hospital

  Feb. 6, 2020

• Cerner teases M&A, divestitures, touts backing for interoperability rules

  Feb. 4, 2020

• The Trump administration is offering Medicaid block grants. Which states will say yes?

  Jan. 30, 2020

• Trump admin to allow Medicaid caps, but legal fight likely as providers protest

  Jan. 30, 2020

• Privacy versus access debate rages on, rekindled by Epic lobbying

  Jan. 29, 2020

• Lyft snags another major health system partner in CommonSpirit

  Jan. 29, 2020

• Backing for unique patient identifier picks up steam at ONC conference

  Jan. 28, 2020

• Providers won't be financially liable for info blocking in final ONC rule, due any day

  Jan. 28, 2020

• Patient use of digital tools, 3rd-party apps to access health records rises in 2019

  Jan. 27, 2020

• Impeachment trial, election won't dampen health investment, Fitch says

  Jan. 24, 2020

• Surescripts loses motion to dismiss FTC antitrust case

  Jan. 23, 2020

• Health AI startups netted a record $4B in funding last year

  Jan. 23, 2020

• New conservative faction to lobby against benchmark surprise billing fix

  Jan. 22, 2020

• Quest acquires Helsinki-based Blueprint Genetics to expand reach

  Jan. 22, 2020

• Uber Health plans to double in size this year

  Jan. 21, 2020

• Tenet names ex-Oracle exec CEO of struggling Conifer unit

  Jan. 21, 2020

• MedPAC finds 340B effect on pricing 'modest,' going against pharma critique

  Jan. 17, 2020

• CVS, Cigna execs tell JPM20 they're ready for a contentious election year

  Jan. 15, 2020

• Trump admin releases 5-year health IT roadmap as industry waits for interoperability update

  Jan. 15, 2020

• UnitedHealth reports nearly $14B in 2019 profit

  Jan. 15, 2020

• Will more employers get off the healthcare bench in 2020?

  Jan. 14, 2020

• Cigna links up with upstart Oscar for small business health insurance

  Jan. 14, 2020

• Teladoc acquires provider telehealth company InTouch for $600M

  Jan. 13, 2020

• The government recovered $3B in fraud last year. Nearly 90% was from healthcare

  Jan. 10, 2020

• CVS, Mayo, Tenet among healthcare companies to watch at #JPM20

  Jan. 10, 2020

• Alphabet snaps up 2nd ex-ONC head for life sciences team

  Jan. 9, 2020

• Insurance startup Bright Health eyes California with 1st payer acquisition

  Jan. 9, 2020

• DOJ joins whistleblower suit against Indiana system for alleged Stark violation

  Jan. 8, 2020

• Ex-Anthem exec Brad Smith appointed head of CMS innovation center

  Jan. 7, 2020

• Google AI tool bests clinicians in breast cancer detection study

  Jan. 2, 2020

• Despite provider claims, hospital M&A not associated with improved care, NEJM finds

  Jan. 2, 2020

• MA value-based plan enrollment tripling for 2020

  Dec. 20, 2019

• With ACA ruling, payers get unexpected short-term reprieve

  Dec. 19, 2019

• Providers push back on PhRMA report highlighting 340B program costs

  Dec. 18, 2019

• CVS long-term care pharmacy sued by DOJ over fraudulent prescribing practices

  Dec. 17, 2019

• CMS wants to overhaul how organs are procured in the US

  Dec. 17, 2019

• Humana to acquire hospice pharmacy, PBM Enclara

  Dec. 16, 2019

• Amid legal roadblocks, CMS clears South Carolina Medicaid work mandates

  Dec. 12, 2019

• Digital assistant Notable nets large system deal with CommonSpirit

  Dec. 12, 2019

• CVS launches precision medicine program for oncology

  Dec. 12, 2019

• Amazon's PillPack inks 1st digital pact with payer in BCBS Massachusetts

  Dec. 11, 2019

• Kaiser interim chief Greg Adams named full-time CEO

  Dec. 11, 2019

• Nonprofit hospitals get bump in Moody's ratings for 2020

  Dec. 10, 2019

• UnitedHealth to acquire embattled specialty pharmacy Diplomat for $300M

  Dec. 9, 2019

• Executive of the Year: Larry Merlo, CVS Health

  Dec. 9, 2019

• Health IT Company of the Year: Surescripts

  Dec. 9, 2019

• More than 1K employers push Senate to repeal ACA Cadillac tax

  Dec. 6, 2019

• Kaiser mental health worker strike back on, with potential hit to 100 clinics

  Dec. 5, 2019

• Disparities between care in rural, urban areas getting worse

  Dec. 4, 2019

• Troubled Quorum Health mulls going private with PE firm KKR

  Dec. 3, 2019

• Amazon's new medical transcription service bolsters voice-to-text bid

  Dec. 2, 2019

• CommonSpirit growing pains lead to quadrupled operating loss in 1st quarter

  Nov. 19, 2019

• IT execs call for HIPAA overhaul in 'Project Nightingale' wake

  Nov. 18, 2019

• Doctors give their EHRs an F for usability

  Nov. 14, 2019

• CMS pitches ramped up oversight of Medicaid payments, promises block grant guidance

  Nov. 12, 2019

• Google's 'Project Nightingale' prompts HHS investigation

  Nov. 11, 2019

• Hospital M&A spurs rising healthcare costs, MedPAC finds

  Nov. 7, 2019

• American Well to buy Aligned Telehealth in behavioral bet

  Nov. 7, 2019

• Retail makes its case, telehealth and voice tech dominate: 6 takeaways from HLTH19

  Nov. 6, 2019

• CVS profit up 10% thanks to Aetna; warns Q4 won't be as rosy

  Nov. 6, 2019

• Haven partners with traditional payers in plans offered to Amazon, JPM workers

  Nov. 5, 2019

• Execs flirt with 'Medicare for All' at HLTH19, despite Trump admin warnings

  Nov. 4, 2019

• HLTH19: Telehealth seeks to move beyond flu, but stymied by regulations

  Nov. 1, 2019

• CMMI head predicts industry will be 'very happy' with his replacement

  Oct. 30, 2019

• AI voice tech startup Suki partners with Google Cloud

  Oct. 30, 2019

• Google eyes AI to cut hospital red tape, move providers beyond 'data clerks'

  Oct. 29, 2019

• Kaiser Permanente rolls out food insecurity initiative in California

  Oct. 29, 2019

• Facebook launches preventive care tool in tandem with healthcare groups

  Oct. 28, 2019

• Uber lands EHR deal with Cerner

  Oct. 28, 2019

• CMS chief Verma teases more Medicaid deregulation

  Oct. 28, 2019

• Mastercard launches new healthcare unit on billing, data security

  Oct. 27, 2019

• 7 can't-miss panels at HLTH19

  Oct. 24, 2019

• Cerner reports mixed Q3 earnings amid 'eventful' quarter

  Oct. 24, 2019

• Amazon acquires digital health startup, 1 year post-Pillpack

  Oct. 24, 2019

• 5 insights from a chat with Larry Merlo, CEO of CVS Health

  Oct. 23, 2019

• Verma dodges on backup plan if ACA is struck down

  Oct. 23, 2019

• Surescripts CEO on monopoly accusations, private sector's role in interoperability

  Oct. 21, 2019

• Humana, Microsoft ink 7-year deal for cloud services

  Oct. 21, 2019

• Google nabs ex-Obama official DeSalvo for new chief health role

  Oct. 18, 2019

• Microsoft lands new partner in race to reliable speech-to-text, EHR documentation

  Oct. 17, 2019

• Health IT advisory group targets price transparency, data security with eye toward 2020

  Oct. 17, 2019

• Boston named top US hospital city, Raleigh dead last

  Oct. 16, 2019

• UnitedHealth boasts $60B revenue in Q3, buoyed by Optum

  Oct. 15, 2019

• Amazon Textract now HIPAA-eligible as tech giant expands AI portfolio

  Oct. 11, 2019

• UnitedHealth doubles down on telemedicine with app in employer-sponsored plans

  Oct. 10, 2019

• Confidence, investment in AI remains high, Optum says

  Oct. 9, 2019

• Colorado's public option plan cuts provider rates to lower premiums

  Oct. 9, 2019

• Startup Devoted says it's 1st MA plan to offer Apple Watch

  Oct. 8, 2019

• Radiologists call for ethics guidelines on AI

  Oct. 3, 2019

• Walmart pilot will steer employees to local, high-quality docs

  Oct. 3, 2019

• Seniors curious but cautious on virtual care

  Oct. 2, 2019

• Alphabet hires ex-FDA commissioner to lead health strategy, policy

  Oct. 1, 2019

• Disruption or integration? Fitbit's health leader discusses the role of wearables in healthcare

  Oct. 1, 2019

• 'A radical experiment': Payers, providers renew attacks on price transparency proposal

  Sept. 30, 2019

• More than 70% of hospital data breaches include sensitive info

  Sept. 26, 2019

• Walmart's Sam's Club teams with Humana in worker discount program

  Sept. 26, 2019

• Amazon launches virtual medical clinic for Seattle employees

  Sept. 25, 2019

• AI just as effective as clinicians in diagnostics, study suggests

  Sept. 25, 2019

• Kaiser strike called off as company, unions reach tentative agreement

  Sept. 24, 2019

• Judge dismisses Oscar antitrust lawsuit against Florida BCBS

  Sept. 23, 2019

• Intel's David Ryan on the past and future of AI in healthcare

  Sept. 20, 2019

• New provider coalition airs interoperability concerns at health IT advisory committee meeting

  Sept. 17, 2019

• Critics skewer fine print in mandatory kidney care model

  Sept. 17, 2019

• Colorado union votes to strike at Kaiser, bringing 'yes' votes nationwide to 42K

  Sept. 13, 2019

• Patient use of digital health tools lags behind hype, poll finds

  Sept. 12, 2019

• Employers urged to get off sidelines to trim healthcare costs

  Sept. 11, 2019

• Mayo Clinic, Google announce 10-year cloud data partnership

  Sept. 11, 2019

• Uninsured rate rises for 1st time since ACA

  Sept. 10, 2019

• CHS hospital fined $85K in first HIPAA right of access case

  Sept. 9, 2019

• Kaiser to reveal detailed financials under newly signed California bill

  Sept. 6, 2019

• UnitedHealth to link Optum's analytics, provider subsidiaries

  Sept. 5, 2019

• ONC selects nonprofit Sequoia Project to coordinate TEFCA

  Sept. 5, 2019

• Citing transparency, PBM startup Capital Rx introduces novel pricing model

  Sept. 4, 2019

• Patients seem willing, but few taking part in telehealth, poll finds

  Aug. 29, 2019

• Fitbit to wade into care management in pilot this year

  Aug. 28, 2019

• CMS updates Medicare Plan Finder following stakeholder pressure

  Aug. 27, 2019

• Mayo Clinic profits almost triple in the quarter to $500M

  Aug. 26, 2019

• Advocate Aurora posts bump in expenses tied to early retirement incentives

  Aug. 23, 2019

• Q&A: ONC chief Don Rucker on bringing the app economy into healthcare

  Aug. 22, 2019

• Big 5 payers grow MA market share in August

  Aug. 22, 2019

• ONC in talks with Congress, White House on third-party health app privacy

  Aug. 21, 2019

• Consumers like their pharmacies, but CVS trails rivals in survey

  Aug. 20, 2019

• Big health plans pledge to look beyond shareholders. Critics aren't so sure

  Aug. 19, 2019

• CMS to update hospital star ratings early next year despite blowback

  Aug. 19, 2019

• $190 or $47,779? Colorado emergency charges vary wildly across state

  Aug. 19, 2019

• CMS chief unable to provide details on Trump healthcare plan

  Aug. 16, 2019

• CMS says it wants to cut paperwork. Providers have ideas.

  Aug. 13, 2019

• North Carolina folds to provider pressure with insurance plan shifting away from set rates

  Aug. 9, 2019

• Allscripts reaches $145M settlement with DOJ over subsidiary business practices

  Aug. 9, 2019

• Apple, Eli Lilly research whether devices can detect dementia signs

  Aug. 8, 2019

• CVS handily beats estimates, hikes 2019 forecast

  Aug. 7, 2019

• CHS posts bigger Q2 net loss, but still beats Wall Street forecasts

  Aug. 6, 2019

• Data breaches in 2019 already double all of last year

  Aug. 2, 2019

• Still not profitable, but Teladoc reports healthy Q2 membership, visit growth

  Aug. 1, 2019

• Amazon, Cerner team up on AI, machine learning

  July 31, 2019

• Problems with Medicare Plan Finder to spur CMS revamp

  July 31, 2019

• HCA falls short in Q2, unconcerned on CMS price transparency push

  July 30, 2019

• CMS will no longer approve full federal funding for partial Medicaid expansion

  July 29, 2019

• Cerner misses Q2 mark on revenue, net earnings down

  July 24, 2019

• As HHS muses more MA flexibility, payers see roadblocks to nonmedical benefits

  July 24, 2019

• CMS' Verma blasts 'Medicare for All,' public option in rhetoric ramp up

  July 23, 2019

• CVS to test knee replacement program for Aetna beneficiaries

  July 23, 2019

• Judge upholds short-term plan expansion in Trump win against ACA

  July 19, 2019

• UnitedHealth Q2 revenue growth fueled by Medicare, Optum

  July 18, 2019

• Provider M&A revenue volume at highest levels since 2017

  July 18, 2019

• Spending on primary care paltry, but some states ramping up

  July 17, 2019

• Surprise billing fight escalates as providers win arbitration add to House bill

  July 17, 2019

• Uptake remains low, but doctors of all ages interested in telemedicine

  July 16, 2019

• CMS proposes Medicare cover acupuncture for patients in approved studies

  July 16, 2019

• CMS to delay star ratings update pending expert panel review

  July 12, 2019

• Health IT committee addresses some, but not all industry concerns with TEFCA

  July 12, 2019

• Female health CIOs defy trend, earn more than men, survey finds

  July 11, 2019

• Trump executive order seeks to overhaul US kidney care

  July 10, 2019

• Amazon momentum in medical supply chain slows, poll finds

  July 9, 2019

• Healthcare Dive's 10 biggest stories of the spring

  July 8, 2019

• ACOs may need stronger financial incentives, like downside risk, to succeed

  July 3, 2019

• Could NEMT's pivot to the commercial sector be a wrong turn?

  July 2, 2019

• Sanford, UnityPoint ink letter of intent to create $11B system

  June 28, 2019

• CMS clears Louisiana Medicaid 'Netflix model' for hep C drugs

  June 26, 2019

• UPMC, Highmark ink 10-year contract after years of fighting

  June 25, 2019

• Surprise billing fixes would ding hospitals, staffing companies, Moody's says

  June 21, 2019

• Industry interoperability concerns plague TEFCA draft

  June 20, 2019

• Geisinger cements interim chief exec Jaewon Ryu as CEO

  June 20, 2019

• Health execs overconfident on data privacy, industry poll finds

  June 18, 2019

• Civica Rx contracts with Vizient to anticipate drug price, availability

  June 18, 2019

• Senators differ on best approach to ban surprise billing

  June 18, 2019

• House votes to overturn decades-old ban on national patient identifier

  June 14, 2019

• American Well, Cisco partner on in-home telehealth option for Medicare Advantage patients

  June 14, 2019

• CMS warned Trump policies would hike taxes, cause ACA disruption, internal memo says

  June 14, 2019

• Uber to provide patient transport for care coordination company Carisk

  June 13, 2019

• Florida health insurer sued over skimpy plans

  June 13, 2019

• Congress warns industry to hurry on surprise billing fix

  June 12, 2019

• TEFCA task force debates incentives for industry adoption

  June 11, 2019

• Humana integrating real-time benefit check into Epic EHRs

  June 11, 2019

• Quest, LabCorp breach stirs questions of cybersecurity risk from outside vendors

  June 10, 2019

• Healthcare employment edges up, though tepid overall

  June 10, 2019

• Medicare beneficiaries prefer traditional over MA in 1st eligible year

  June 7, 2019

• Healthcare better for women than other industries, but C-suite rep lags

  June 6, 2019

• Partners withdraws from Care New England acquisition

  June 5, 2019

• Industry cheers spirit but not fine print in HHS interoperability rules

  June 4, 2019

• CVS to open 1.5K HealthHUB stores in next 2 years

  June 4, 2019

• Utah wants capped Medicaid enrollment, spending

  June 3, 2019

• ONC exploring ways to streamline electronic prior authorization

  June 3, 2019

• Heightened drug price scrutiny not likely to hurt insurers much, Fitch says

  May 31, 2019

• Provider groups slam rate setting in House surprise billing draft legislation

  May 30, 2019

• More than 60% of consumers interested in data-for-rewards programs

  May 30, 2019

• UCSF ends proposed affiliation with Dignity over LGBTQ, reproductive rights

  May 29, 2019

• Physician burnout costs industry $4.6B annually

  May 28, 2019

• CMS home-based primary care model yields mixed results

  May 24, 2019

• ONC advisory committee finalizes interoperability rule recommendations

  May 23, 2019

• Dual eligible MA beneficiaries receive better care at lower costs than FFS

  May 22, 2019

• MA beneficiaries disproportionately affected by social determinants of health

  May 22, 2019

• Private payers cover more than 40% of drug costs

  May 21, 2019

• Express Scripts plans formulary for apps, medical devices

  May 17, 2019

• Provider demand for accurate patient matching is high, Pew says

  May 16, 2019

• Nonprofit hospitals on solid footing to handle outside disruption, S&P says

  May 15, 2019

• HITAC recommends leveraging demographic data to help patient matching

  May 14, 2019

• Payers not entitled to $12B in risk corridors payments, DOJ says

  May 10, 2019

• Hospital CEO turnover down 35% from last year

  May 9, 2019

• Aetna launches app for Apple Watch

  May 8, 2019

• ACOs less likely to leave Medicare program after 3rd year

  May 8, 2019

• Payers had best individual market performance in 2018 since ACA began

  May 8, 2019

• HHS officials defend interoperability rules to Senate critics

  May 7, 2019

• Seniors switching to MA already have lower costs than traditional Medicare beneficiaries

  May 7, 2019

• CVS exec: 'We don't discount Amazon'

  May 3, 2019

• CMS seeks comments on state workarounds to ACA requirements

  May 2, 2019

• Civica Rx CEO predicts 'stampede' if Amazon's Haven succeeds

  April 30, 2019

• HHS curbs fines for HIPAA violations

  April 29, 2019

• Cerner hits Q1 expectations despite bookings drop

  April 26, 2019

• 'Meet PillPack': Amazon rolls out Rx delivery direct marketing

  April 24, 2019

• Health system M&A recedes slightly in first quarter of 2019

  April 24, 2019

• Half of middle-income seniors won't be able to afford healthcare, housing in a decade

  April 24, 2019

• Medicare spending to snowball to 6% of GDP in next 2 decades, trustees predict

  April 23, 2019

• HHS drops 2nd TEFCA iteration, extends interoperability rules comment period

  April 22, 2019

• Humana rolls out oncology payment model

  April 17, 2019

• Hospital M&A hits lowest point in nearly a decade

  April 17, 2019

• Texas Blue, Sanitas USA to open 10 primary care clinics in Dallas, Houston

  April 10, 2019

• UnitedHealthcare expands MA bundled payment plan offerings for 2020

  April 10, 2019

• Walgreens bringing primary care docs to Houston stores with VillageMD partnership

  April 10, 2019

• Healthcare administrative costs will tally nearly $500B this year

  April 9, 2019

• MedPAC wants to redesign MA quality bonus program

  April 5, 2019

• New York, Connecticut health systems merge to form $2.4B provider

  April 4, 2019

• CMS approves Maine's long-awaited Medicaid expansion

  April 4, 2019

• Americans' healthcare paradox: 'angst' on costs, overconfidence on quality

  April 3, 2019

• HHS publishes 340B drug ceiling prices in concession to hospital lobby

  April 2, 2019

• Wyden floats adding prescription drug comparison tool to EHRs

  March 28, 2019

• Industry urges slower pace on HHS interoperability rules

  March 27, 2019

• Scale: blessing or burden for statewide ACOs?

  March 27, 2019

• As 5G looms, most hospitals watch from the sidelines

  March 21, 2019

• Specialty drug costs skyrocketed to $32.8B in Medicare Part D in 2015

  March 20, 2019

• Electronic prior authorization merits wider adoption, health IT, payer groups say

  March 20, 2019

• Short-term plans, Medicaid waivers, MA benefits dominate AHIP conferences

  March 18, 2019

• Cambia, BCBS of North Carolina link to form $16B insurer

  March 13, 2019

• House panel to launch investigation into short-term 'junk' plans

  March 13, 2019

• HHS hints at cutting 'onerous' substance abuse record rules

  March 13, 2019

• Trump admin proposes massive cuts to Medicaid, Medicare

  March 12, 2019

• Trump admin floats publicizing provider-payer negotiated rates

  March 7, 2019

• Amazon-JPM-Berkshire Hathaway troika has a name: Haven

  March 6, 2019

• US kidney care getting revamp, HHS officials say

  March 4, 2019

• MassBio gives report card on state's digital chops

  Feb. 28, 2019

• CMS updates hospital star ratings for the first time since 2017

  Feb. 28, 2019

• Amazon's senior leader of healthcare and AI talks disruption, Amazon Web Services

  Feb. 25, 2019

• Physician burnout down from 2014 peak, report finds

  Feb. 22, 2019

• US healthcare spending growth to hit 5.5% by 2027, CMS predicts

  Feb. 20, 2019

• Google Cloud's head of healthcare on data silos, cybersecurity and APIs in the age of the cloud

  Feb. 20, 2019

• HIMSS19: Lyft looks at nutrition amid population health focus

  Feb. 15, 2019

• 4 main takeaways from HIMSS19

  Feb. 15, 2019

• Allscripts CEO on interoperability, Lyft and social determinants of health

  Feb. 15, 2019

• HIMSS19: CMS innovation center could jumpstart interoperability models

  Feb. 14, 2019

• HIMSS19: CMS plans to host AI challenge, innovation chief says

  Feb. 14, 2019

• HIMSS19: Private sector catch-up, patient matching and standard APIs dominate first full day

  Feb. 13, 2019

• HIMSS19: New API coming for Medicare ACOs

  Feb. 13, 2019

• HIMSS19: CVS, Cigna execs tout pharmacies amid pricing debate

  Feb. 13, 2019

• Data blocking, standard APIs targeted in long-awaited EHR rules

  Feb. 11, 2019

• Digital health must catch up to years of hype in 2019, HIMSS says

  Jan. 30, 2019

• HIMSS19: 5 panels you don't want to miss

  Jan. 28, 2019

• Financial worries keep hospital CEOs up at night

  Jan. 28, 2019

• Medicaid advisory panel calls for phasing in DSH allotment reductions

  Jan. 25, 2019

• Downside risk spurs provider exodus in bundled payment models, GAO says

  Jan. 23, 2019

• CMS pitches new MA and Part D voluntary payment models

  Jan. 18, 2019

• HCA's $1.5B buy of Mission gets North Carolina AG nod

  Jan. 17, 2019

• Traditional players focused on value-based care, interoperability to drive innovation, experts argue

  Jan. 16, 2019

• Hospital drug spend spiked 19% from 2015-17, coalition says

  Jan. 16, 2019

• Democrats riding in on blue wave seek more liberal state, local health policies

  Jan. 15, 2019

• Walmart exits CVS pharmacy benefit network over pricing dispute

  Jan. 15, 2019

• Dems seek answers from Trump admin on CMMI, ACA

  Jan. 11, 2019

• How AI could shape the health tech landscape in 2019

  Jan. 10, 2019

• Women make up only 13% of healthcare CEOs

  Jan. 8, 2019

• Final ACA federal enrollment tally drops due to cancellations

  Jan. 4, 2019

• Policy upheaval, tech giant disruption and megamergers: Healthcare Dive's 10 best stories of 2018

  Dec. 21, 2018

• Information blocking rule blows past deadline

  Dec. 18, 2018

• Federal judge suggests CVS-Aetna be monitored by outside appointee

  Dec. 18, 2018

• What to expect after whirlwind ACA ruling

  Dec. 17, 2018

• 4.2M Americans eligible for free ACA coverage, KFF says

  Dec. 12, 2018

• Lawmakers impatient for ONC interoperability rule

  Dec. 11, 2018

• Envision, UnitedHealthcare settle fierce nationwide contract squabble

  Dec. 11, 2018

• MedPAC pitches 2% boost in hospital Medicare payments, merged quality incentive program

  Dec. 7, 2018

• Telehealth for substance abuse growing quickly, but lags behind mental health usage

  Dec. 6, 2018

• Trump's deregulatory health agenda chided at conservative forum

  Dec. 5, 2018

• Status of Ascension-owned DC hospital ER up in air

  Dec. 5, 2018

• Hire of the Year: Adam Boehler, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

  Dec. 3, 2018

• Telemedicine use among commercially insured skyrocketed since 2005

  Nov. 29, 2018

• CVS-Aetna megamerger finalized

  Nov. 28, 2018

• Almost 70% of voters support protection for pre-existing conditions

  Nov. 28, 2018

• Filming the opioid epidemic: 5 must-see documentaries

  Nov. 27, 2018

• ECRI launches clinical guidelines site to replace resource HHS shuttered

  Nov. 21, 2018

• Consumerism (and Amazon) loom over #USNHoT

  Nov. 20, 2018

• CVS-Aetna merger cleared by California's insurance regulator

  Nov. 15, 2018

• 'Stay tuned,' says Azar: CMMI to take a closer look at social determinants of health

  Nov. 14, 2018

• Over 4.4M patient records breached in Q3, report finds

  Nov. 12, 2018

• HHS teases mandatory bundled models in about-face

  Nov. 9, 2018

• Red states say 'yes' to Medicaid

  Nov. 7, 2018

• CVS says Aetna merger will close by Thanksgiving

  Nov. 6, 2018

• 9 state healthcare battles to watch Tuesday

  Nov. 2, 2018

• Morgan Stanley hires first CMO to combat rising healthcare costs

  Nov. 1, 2018

• CHS sees massive Q3 net loss amid weak volume, aftershocks of HMA settlement

  Oct. 30, 2018

• LifePoint beats Q3 expectations as RCCH merger looms

  Oct. 29, 2018

• Risky business: 5 provider strategies to take on downside risk

  Oct. 24, 2018

• APM adoption up to 34%, but downside risk slow to catch on

  Oct. 23, 2018

• UnitedHealth to launch 'fully integrated' EHR next year

  Oct. 18, 2018

• Insurers see broad market opportunities with end-of-life care

  Oct. 17, 2018

• CVS CEO unfazed by Amazon, focused on closing merger, growth

  Oct. 16, 2018

• Anthem shells out $16M in largest ever HIPAA fine

  Oct. 16, 2018

• National Academy of Medicine argues barriers to interoperability are organizational, not technical

  Oct. 15, 2018

• Arkansas Medicaid work requirements beset by challenges, report finds

  Oct. 10, 2018

• Wisconsin shelled out $1.1B for uncompensated care in FY17

  Oct. 9, 2018

• Patient-matching tools viable but nowhere near perfect, Pew says

  Oct. 2, 2018

• CMS launches online Medicare open enrollment initiative

  Oct. 2, 2018

• Opioid interventions can curb overprescribing, boost MAT access, JAMA studies show

  Sept. 28, 2018

• For-profit hospitals show higher rates of readmission

  Sept. 20, 2018

• AHA, on defense, pitches 340B 'stewardship'

  Sept. 19, 2018

• Michigan threatens to repeal Medicaid expansion if work requirements not approved

  Sept. 12, 2018

• PhRMA, hospital war over drug prices heats up

  Sept. 6, 2018

• Amazon-Berkshire-JPM healthcare venture picks COO

  Sept. 5, 2018

• California's Verity system files bankruptcy, faces $175M in annual losses

  Sept. 4, 2018

• CMMI director says agency won't force all providers to assume risk

  Aug. 31, 2018

• Tennessee health system lawsuit alleges rigged Medicaid contracting by state

  Aug. 30, 2018

• Payers saw more upgrades in H1 2018, A.M. Best says

  Aug. 29, 2018

• New hospital ranking looks at customer loyalty

  Aug. 27, 2018

• Nearly 20% of US hospitals weak or at risk of closing, analysis finds

  Aug. 22, 2018

• Target hospitals see limited benefits from M&A, report finds

  Aug. 21, 2018

• Anthem, Walmart partner on MA program aimed at improving OTC access

  Aug. 20, 2018

• 5 key takeaways from hospitals' Q2 results

  Aug. 15, 2018

• AI can save US insurers $7B in admin costs, Accenture says

  Aug. 9, 2018

• CHS under EHR meaningful use investigation

  Aug. 9, 2018

• ACOs using medical home physicians save money, yield higher quality, report finds

  Aug. 8, 2018

• GM contracting directly with Henry Ford Health System

  Aug. 7, 2018

• Express Scripts income up, defends PBM model

  Aug. 2, 2018

• Molina beats expectations with $202M net income for Q2

  Aug. 1, 2018

• OIG fines eClinicalWorks for failing to report patient safety issues

  July 31, 2018

• CHS beats Q2 expectations despite drops in revenue, admissions

  July 27, 2018

• Higher Medicaid rates improved behavioral health, study finds

  July 26, 2018

• Pharma, medtech spending accounted for 28% of CME funds in 2017

  July 26, 2018

• CMS reinstates ACA risk-adjustment payments

  July 25, 2018

• Banner's Epic to Cerner conversion generated medical errors

  July 24, 2018

• Controversial Anthem ER policy under fire in lawmaker's report

  July 20, 2018

• Hikma ramping up injectable opioid output for US hospitals

  July 19, 2018

• Nearly half of antibiotics inappropriate in urgent care, CDC study says

  July 18, 2018

• Humana study touts telehealth cost cuts, with comparable follow-ups

  July 18, 2018

• HHS kills clinical guidelines website, cites budget cuts

  July 17, 2018

• Industry groups launch guide for managing high-need, high-cost patients

  July 16, 2018

• MA outperforms traditional Medicare for people with chronic conditions, study finds

  July 11, 2018

• Gottlieb: FDA seeking 'right balance' in regulating opioid prescriptions

  July 10, 2018

• EHR error rates vary widely across systems, JAMIA study finds

  July 9, 2018

• Amazon Business' medical supply chain ambitions: 4 things to know

  July 6, 2018

• CMS proposes home health pay changes, including remote monitoring

  July 3, 2018

• CareFirst touts $1B saved with patient-centered medical home program

  June 29, 2018

• More Medicare patients dying at home, JAMA study finds

  June 26, 2018

• Ascension spins out hospital automation tool service

  June 21, 2018

• CVS offers at-home Rx delivery amid Amazon threat

  June 20, 2018