Prime Healthcare, which acquired eight Ascension hospitals in Illinois in March, is reportedly eliminating more than 100 jobs in that state.
Prime made most of the reductions Friday and will continue cutting other jobs through July, according to the Ch…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired the 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices and accused them of violating conflict-of-interest rules in receiving “substantial funding” from pharmaceutical comp…
A generative artificial intelligence system developed in-house at Northwestern Medicine is boosting productivity by identifying life-threatening conditions in milliseconds.
People insured through Medicare can now access PillPack from Amazon Pharmacy to get access to presorted medication, according to the retailer.
Amazon said that presorted, labeled medication packets delivered to people’s homes will make it easier to man…
Humana and UnitedHealth Group have agreed to greater oversight of in-home clinical assessments made by nurses in the Medicare Advantage program.
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said it’s preparing for what it believes will be “devastating federal cuts” that could impact the quality of care it provides to the community.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 10.9 million people would lose their health insurance coverage in 2034 should H.R.1, legislation known as the Big Beautiful Bill Act, be enacted as passed by the House on May 22.
Hospital financial performance has improved since the start of the year, with margins improving for nonprofit hospitals specifically.
This is despite tariff policies at the national level that are causing uncertainty and market volatility, according to…
Executives at state-based insurance exchanges have written a letter to healthcare leaders in the Senate expressing concern over the contents of the Republican-led “Big Beautiful Bill,” saying proposals in the legislation would likely drive up costs for…
The House’s gigantic tax-and-spending budget reconciliation bill has landed with a thud in the Senate, where lawmakers are divided in their criticism over whether it increases the deficit too much or cuts Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act too deeply. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that the bill, if enacted, could increase the ranks of the uninsured by nearly 11 million people over a decade won’t make it an easy sell. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Arielle Zionts, who reported and wrote the latest “Bill of the Month” feature, about a Medicaid patient who had an out-of-state emergency.
