The U.S. Bankruptcy Court of New Jersey has approved a plan for Rite Aid to sell 64 of its stores to CVS Health and the prescription files of 625 Rite Aid pharmacies across 15 states, with more details about the deal to be revealed in the coming weeks,…
Beginning immediately, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is auditing all eligible Medicare Advantage contracts in what the agency is calling a significant expansion of its efforts.
The agency will expand its workforce of medical coders fro…
Kettering Health in Ohio is dealing with a system-wide technology outage brought on by a cyberattack that allowed unauthorized access to the network.
Kettering was first made aware of the incident on May 20, when it noticed an inability to access certa…
Most employers say they plan on maintaining or even expanding their employee well-being programs, but they’ll be taking vendors to task.
According to Business Group on Health’s 2025 Employer Well-being Strategy Survey, 73% of employers plan to maintain…
Shares of UnitedHealth Group got battered again Wednesday morning on a report that it paid kickbacks to nursing homes to reduce costly hospital transfers.
Late last year, South Carolina Medicaid approved a class of medications known as GLP-1s to treat obesity, placing it among the few state programs covering these effective but expensive drugs. But access remains limited, even for patients covered by Medicaid, because of stringent prerequisites that must be satisfied before starting the drug.
The American Hospital Association has expressed concern about drug and other shortages that may occur as a result of tariffs newly implemented by the Trump administration on items such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices and personal protective equipment.
For the second time, a federal judge in Rhode Island has barred the Department of Health and Human Services from cutting $11 billion in public health funding to states.
A Florida man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for evading nearly $2.4 million in taxes on income he earned from selling medical equipment.
According to documents and statements made in court, Roger Whitman manufactured and sold Rife m…
One thing experts agree on: The damage from the funding cuts will be varied and immense.
