Why health systems should be ‘clear-eyed’ about business goals for AI tools

Caroline Pearson, the executive director of the Peterson Health Technology Institute, discusses the institute’s new task force studying the financial, efficiency and workforce effects of AI products.

By Emily Olsen • Feb. 6, 2025

Providers sue Trump over gender-affirming care policies, purge of health information

Doctors groups signed on to lawsuits seeking to overturn policies that limit gender-affirming care for minors and remove some public-facing health information.

By Susanna Vogel • Feb. 6, 2025

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Payer/provider relationships

As M&A intensifies and companies embrace more holistic and value-based care models, partnerships have become more closely intertwined.

By Healthcare Dive staff

AHA joins call for Trump to exempt devices from import tariffs

Disruption to the supply of devices from China would curtail hospitals’ ability to perform life-saving surgeries and protect patients and healthcare workers from contagion, the group warned.

By Nick Paul Taylor , Susanna Vogel • Feb. 6, 2025

HCA finalizes acquisition of Catholic Medical Center

CMC has struggled financially for years and was on the verge of bankruptcy prior to the deal. Regulators imposed significant conditions on the sale and will monitor HCA for compliance over 10 years.

By Susanna Vogel • Feb. 4, 2025

Prospect Medical wants to to sell its Rhode Island hospitals to the Centurion Foundation

State regulators approved a deal to sell the hospitals months ago. However, Prospect said in court filings it couldn’t afford to carry out the attorney general’s hefty closing conditions.

By Susanna Vogel • Feb. 4, 2025

Healthcare supply chain, pharmacy costs to rise in 2025: report

Tariffs and price inflation for specialty medications will increase costs, according to research from Vizient. 

By Susanna Vogel • Feb. 3, 2025

Hospitals seek to intervene in J&J lawsuit against HHS to protect valuable drug discounts

340B Health and two safety-net hospitals want to help the government prove that drugmakers are required to give upfront discounts on 340B drugs.

By Rebecca Pifer • Feb. 3, 2025

Bankrupt Prospect Medical says it has tentative deal to sell Crozer Health

Prospect Medical Holdings said Friday it has a deal to sell Crozer Health to a consortium of nonprofit healthcare operators. However, the system offered few specifics about deal terms.

By Susanna Vogel • Feb. 3, 2025

Trump seeks to ban federal funding for youth gender-affirming care

Over half of U.S. states currently have laws banning or reducing access to gender-affirming care like puberty blockers for minors. Under the new directive, even more providers could stop offering treatments.

By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 30, 2025

RFK Jr. signals willingness to restrict abortion, despite prior stance

At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Democratic and Republican senators sought to tie Kennedy down on how he’d approach the issue as health secretary, if confirmed.

By Emily Olsen , Sydney Halleman , Delilah Alvarado • Updated Jan. 30, 2025

Healthcare’s outlook in 2025: New administration spells uncertainty, but hope remains

Although experts predict payers, providers and health technology companies will grapple with uncertainty in a second Trump administration, some hope that yearslong headwinds could begin reversing course in 2025.

By Sydney Halleman • Jan. 29, 2025

Site-neutrality: A solution in search of a problem

Site-neutral payment policy is a distraction from the underlying causes of high healthcare costs and places providers at risk, argues Ascension’s chief health outcomes officer.

By Richard Fogel • Jan. 29, 2025

Main Line Health threatens to go out of network with Cigna over contract dispute

Main Line Health says Cigna hasn't updated its reimbursement rate since 2016. Cigna says it is negotiating in good faith to find a solution that keeps healthcare affordable for patients.

By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 29, 2025

Lawmakers report states shut out of Medicaid payment portals following Trump funding freeze

Other payment systems also appear to be offline, suggesting a broader shutdown of federal portals related to grants and funding.

By Rebecca Pifer • Updated Jan. 28, 2025

Healthcare bankruptcies declined in 2024: report

Still, bankruptcy filings remained elevated, with the sector reaching the second-highest amount in the past six years, according to healthcare restructuring advisory firm Gibbins Advisors.

By Emily Olsen • Jan. 28, 2025

Providence restructures its executive team — again

The Washington-based health system is launching an Office of Transformation to oversee the deployment of technology, including artificial intelligence, across the organization.

By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 24, 2025

HCA closes 2024 strong despite lingering hurricane impacts

However, this year looks volatile, as the future of Medicaid state supplemental payment programs is uncertain and the threat of tariffs hang overhead.

By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 24, 2025

Jefferson, Lehigh Valley Health to lay off 271 workers

The layoffs come five months after the hospital operators merged, creating a 32-hospital system.

By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 23, 2025

Americans mixed on potential Trump healthcare priorities: KFF poll

About half of respondents said the nation should spend more on Medicaid and Medicare — a potential challenge for the Trump administration looking to cut costs.

By Emily Olsen • Jan. 22, 2025

Providers to target efficiency, supply chain resilience in 2025

Health systems will work to expand their supply chains and ink nontraditional partnerships in 2025, while trimming excessive AI programs and nonclinical staff.

By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 22, 2025

Hospitals no longer protected from immigration raids

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security lifted the practice of avoiding immigration enforcement at hospitals. Some advocates say the new policy could deter immigrants from seeking medical care.

By Kara Arundel , Sydney Halleman • Jan. 21, 2025

The invisible edge: an introduction to AI-enabled data migration

AI transforms medical data migration: faster, smarter and ready for the future of healthcare.

By Dave Wilson • Jan. 21, 2025

Divestitures and distressed deals defined hospital M&A in 2024: report

Last year was a record year for health system divestitures, and Kaufman Hall expects to see more in 2025.

By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 17, 2025

Private equity poses ‘new and unique risks’ to healthcare, federal agencies warn

A new report from the Biden administration calls for increased transparency in healthcare transactions to better monitor the growing influence of private equity on care delivery.

By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 16, 2025

Mayo Clinic expands AI documentation partnership with Abridge

The notetaking assistant will first be available to about 2,000 clinicians serving one million patients.

By Emily Olsen • Jan. 15, 2025