Susan Morse

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Cleveland Clinic partners with Regent Surgical for ambulatory surgery centers

Cleveland Clinic is partnering with Regent Surgical to combine lower ambulatory surgery center rates with the health system’s clinical expertise.

Rite Aid again files for bankruptcy as it pursues a buyer

Rite Aid has filed for bankruptcy for a second time as it seeks a buyer.
Rite Aid filed for Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey to pursue a sale of its prescriptions, pharmacy and front-end inventory, and other assets, th…

GE HealthCare gets FDA clearance for AI-powered image technology

GE HealthCare has announced that the Food and Drug Administration has granted clearance for its Aurora nuclear medicine system and Clarify DL, an AI-powered deep learning image reconstruction technology for radiation therapy.

GE HealthCare gets FDA clearance for AI-powered image technology

GE HealthCare has announced that the Food and Drug Administration has granted clearance for its Aurora nuclear medicine system and Clarify DL, an AI-powered deep learning image reconstruction technology for radiation therapy.

Trump releases executive order to speed domestic drug production

President Trump has signed an executive order to speed domestic manufacturing of prescription drugs.

Trump’s budget would cut a quarter of HHS discretionary funding

President Donald Trump released a 2026 proposed budget on Friday that would cut $33.3 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Health and Human Services, a 26.2% reduction from 2025.
A proposed $674 million would be cut from the Centers f…

Democrats introduce resolutions to keep public input in rulemaking

Democratic senators and representatives have introduced companion resolutions  calling upon the Trump Administration to reverse course on a decision to no longer require public input on changes to public programs and policies overseen by the Department…

Elevance, Humana and Aetna allegedly paid kickbacks to brokers

The United States has filed a complaint against Aetna, Elevance and Humana for allegedly paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to insurance brokers eHealth, GoHealth and SelectQuote. 

Supreme Court rules against hospitals over DSH payment

The Supreme Court has ruled against hospitals in a case over disproportionate share hospital payments.
The Justices handed up a 7-2 decision on Tuesday. 

Cedar announces agentic AI for healthcare billing

Patient financial platform Cedar has launched Kora, an AI voice agent that is projected to automate 30% of inbound billing calls by the end of the year.  
The platform is trained on Cedar’s pre-existing billing data so that Kora is able to intelligentl…