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Trump administration targets DME suppliers in fraud crackdown
The government plans a six-month moratorium on supplier enrollment in the Medicare program to find ways to stop what it called “longstanding instances of fraud, waste, and abuse” by certain companies.
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Sponsored by Documo6 ways AI is finally tackling healthcare’s paper problem
Paper still slows healthcare behind the scenes - see how AI removes delays before care begins.
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Provider groups push to preserve some IT certification criteria, including AI ‘model cards’
A proposed rule would cull or revise dozens of health IT certification criteria, but providers say regulators should keep some of them to avoid shifting costs or compliance responsibilities back onto clinicians.
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AMA creates new maternity care coding system
The doctors’ association is blowing up the U.S.’ decades-old coding system for recording pregnancy services and starting fresh next year, bowing to calls from OB-GYNs and other maternity specialists.
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University of Mississippi Medical Center reopens clinics after ransomware attack
The academic medical center’s clinics can once again access patient records and are resuming normal operations more than a week after the attack.
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Former Optum chief departs UnitedHealth
Heather Cianfrocco, an executive vice president at UnitedHealth and former CEO of its health services division Optum, announced she was leaving the company after a 24-year tenure.
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Elevance shuffles C-suite as top Carelon exec departs
The leadership changes at Elevance’s main growth engine Carelon — and the company’s decision to centralize oversight of its health plans — come as Elevance looks to bolster waning profits.
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How PBM reforms could push drugmakers into the pricing spotlight
The Consolidated Appropriations Act’s landmark PBM overhaul removes financial incentives tied to pharma list prices, potentially leaving drugmakers to defend their own practices.
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UHS eyes rising admissions targets this year despite headwinds
The for-profit hospital operator said on a call with investors that it hopes its behavioral health facilities will hit a long-term goal of 2% to 3% growth in adjusted patient days.
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Trump administration halts over $259M in Medicaid funds to Minnesota
The funds would be a fraction of the $11.8 billion in Medicaid funding the state receives from the federal government. The Trump administration said the action was part of a broader crackdown on fraud in federal healthcare programs.
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Teladoc projects lower integrated care membership amid ACA subsidy lapse
The company’s U.S. integrated care membership could decline by nearly 5% at the high end of its projections, management said during an earnings call Wednesday.
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Labcorp expands PathAI pact to roll out digital pathology platform in US
Labcorp’s pathologists will use the software to review, interpret and manage digital images of slides for primary diagnosis.
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Medicare Advantage forced disenrollments rise as insurers exit markets: study
The average rate of forced disenrollments where enrollees had to find a new plan rose from 1% in 2024 to 10% this year, according to research published in JAMA.
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Trump’s State of the Union trumpets healthcare greatest hits, but no new policies
In his lengthy address Tuesday night, the president touted his efforts to make drugs and insurance more affordable but steered clear of hot-button issues like vaccine access and the GOP’s Medicaid cuts.
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Veradigm avoids enforcement action in SEC probe
The investigation began after the health IT company failed to comply with financial reporting requirements, which led to its delisting from the Nasdaq in early 2024.
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15 states sue HHS over changes to childhood vaccine schedule
The lawsuit seeks to reverse the abrupt overhaul of the U.S. immunization schedule as well as the federal government’s allegedly unlawful reformation of a key vaccine panel.
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Worker did not plausibly argue obesity was a disability, 1st Circuit finds
In a lawsuit filed against Cigna for refusing to cover weight loss medication, a Maine worker described the condition and its impact too generally, the appeals court said.
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GOP’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ erases 12 years of solvency for Medicare trust fund: CBO
Congressional scorekeepers expect the Hospital Insurance trust fund to run dry more than a decade earlier than they previously expected, after Republicans’ megabill slashed the revenues it receives from taxes.
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Private equity firm to buy home health and hospice provider Enhabit in $1.1B deal
The deal, which will take Enhabit private, comes after private equity investments in healthcare reached record highs last year.
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Medicare Advantage growth decelerates as insurers shed members for 2026
A Healthcare Dive analysis lays out just how drastically insurers retrenched their MA businesses for 2026, with UnitedHealthcare, CVS and Elevance discarding hundreds of thousands of members.
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Kaiser Permanente workers end monthlong strike in California, Hawaii
The workers’ union said “significant movement” at the bargaining table led to the end of the strike. But according to Kaiser, union leadership accepted the wage increase that the health system already offered in October.
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Justice Department sues OhioHealth over alleged anticompetitive insurer contracts
The DOJ filed a lawsuit last week accusing OhioHealth of leveraging its market power to force insurers to include its providers in their networks.
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CHS could slow pace of divestitures as it makes progress paying debt
Executives on an earnings call said CHS would be less “programmatic” about divestitures moving forward. The hospital operator has divested 35% of its hospital portfolio since 2019.
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Trump sets fresh 10% global tariff — and plans to increase further
The new duties will go into effect Feb. 24, although the president has since signaled he will raise the rate to 15%. Medical supplies were not included in a list of exempted items.
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TrackerTracking healthcare data breaches
A data breach at physician staffing and practice management firm ApolloMD may have exposed the information of more than 626,000 people.
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Supreme Court invalidates Trump tariffs based on emergency powers
In a 6-3 decision, the court rejected President Trump's claim that a 1977 law gave him the authority to impose broad tariffs globally.
