Category: Health Insurance

Seeking Spending Cuts, GOP Lawmakers Target a Tax Hospitals Love To Pay

Republicans, on the hunt for spending cuts, are eyeing a special kind of Medicaid tax that nearly every state uses to boost funding for hospitals, nursing homes, and other providers.

Trump administration nixes Harvard research grants

The Trump administration will no longer be providing federal research grants to Harvard University, with U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon informing Harvard in a letter, which was posted to X, that grants would be halted after a “comprehensive …

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…

Bill would make violence against healthcare workers a federal crime

U.S. Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and Angus King (I-Maine) have introduced legislation that would establish federal criminal penalties for assaulting hospital employees.

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 Policies at Odds With ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Push

On the surface, President Donald Trump embraced the MAHA movement with a pledge to end the nation’s high rates of chronic disease. But the broader Trump agenda may prove to be the biggest barrier this effort confronts.

Trump Policies at Odds With ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Push

On the surface, President Donald Trump embraced the MAHA movement with a pledge to end the nation’s high rates of chronic disease. But the broader Trump agenda may prove to be the biggest barrier this effort confronts.

HCA Florida adding diagnostic cardiology

HCA Florida JFK North Hospital in Palm Beach is expanding its Interventional Services Department, adding diagnostic cardiology to its offerings.
Along with the new diagnostic cardiology capabilities, the department will now feature interventional radio…

Trump releases executive order to speed domestic drug production

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