California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a settlement agreement this week reached by The Regents of the University of California and UCSF Health regarding their $100 million purchase of Dignity Health’s two San Francisco hospitals, St. Mary’s Me…
In a preliminary injunction last week, a federal judge in Mississippi has ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services’ antidiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ patients cannot be enforced. The ruling cited the Supreme Court’s recent overtur…
Hackensack Meridian Health is suing Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra over the calculation of Medicare reimbursement used to determine Disproportionate Share Hospital payments.
A Texas federal court last week issued a preliminary injunction against the Federal Trade Commission’s noncompete ban, which if implemented would allow existing noncompete arrangements for senior executives to remain in effect, but would bar employers …
CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield, in partnership with MRO, has a clinical digital exchange platform that both payers and providers can access.
The Supreme Court has ruled that abortions for life saving care in Idaho is legal, at least for now.
This means that hospitals and emergency room physicians don’t have to second guess whether the care they’re providing is criminal, but the SCOTUS decis…
The highest gross margins among insurers come from Medicare Advantage, which boasted gross margins per enrollee of $1,982 on average by the end of 2023, compared to $1,048 in the individual market, according to a new KFF
A Mass General team has developed modified criteria that may help healthcare professionals more accurately identify anaphylaxis, a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction, in infants and young children.
The planned $3.3 billion merger of UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys will likely close in the second half of the year, with both companies making a bid to mollify federal antitrust regulators by divesting care centers to VCG Luna, a VitalCaring Group aff…
Geisinger’s data breach may have exposed the personal data of 1.2 million patients, according to the Department of Human Services Office for Civil Rights Breach Portal.
