Establish a Just Culture to improve patient safety

Transition to a non-punitive approach and effectively reduce medical errors with this system of safety and self-improvement.

June 23, 2025

Amazon restructures healthcare business

Amazon is reshuffling its various healthcare initiatives into six new divisions, each helmed by a longtime executive or One Medical leader.

By Rebecca Pifer • June 16, 2025

Explore the Trendline➔

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

Iowa passes law imposing tighter restrictions on PBMs

Last week, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law seeking to control rising prescription drug costs and protect rural pharmacies by targeting some of the drug middlemens’ most controversial practices.

By Susanna Vogel • June 16, 2025

Oregon’s new law is nation’s toughest against private equity in healthcare

Other states have passed laws bolstering oversight of healthcare deals this year, including Massachusetts, New Mexico, Indiana and Washington.

By Susanna Vogel • June 12, 2025

AMA swears in Bobby Mukkamala as president

Mukkamala, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor last year, raised concerns during his inaugural address about cuts to federal spending on biomedical research, saying the funds have advanced treatments for patients like him.

By Emily Olsen • June 11, 2025

Healthcare job growth remained strong in May: BLS

Employers added 30,000 hospital jobs, 29,000 ambulatory healthcare services roles and 6,000 skilled nursing positions last month, according to the report. 

By Susanna Vogel • June 9, 2025

Appeals court to rehear No Surprises case in bright spot for providers

The 5th Circuit could potentially cancel out a rare win it handed the federal government late last year in litigation over the No Surprises Act.

By Rebecca Pifer • June 4, 2025

Epic charts growth in provider TEFCA adoption

The EHR vendor plans to transition all its customers to the government health information sharing framework by the end of the year. Currently, 41% are live with TEFCA.

By Emily Olsen • June 3, 2025

Share of physicians working in private practice continues to fall: AMA

Fewer doctors are working in practices they own as hospitals and private equity firms buy up medical groups, according to the new research.

By Susanna Vogel • June 2, 2025

Providers could lose $770B in revenue if GOP megabill passes

And that’s not counting an almost $200 billion increase in uncompensated care — most of which would fall on hospitals, the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project.

By Rebecca Pifer • May 30, 2025

Elevance sues Georgia providers for allegedly gaming No Surprises arbitration

Hospitalist Medicine Physicians, Sound Physicians Emergency Medicine and billing provider HaloMd allegedly filed thousands of ineligible disputes into the arbitration process, costing the insurer millions of dollars.

By Rebecca Pifer • May 29, 2025

Abortion providers could face more prosecution under Trump, experts say

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has indicated she wants to help challenge shield laws that protect clinicians offering abortion care, but the administration has sent mixed messages.

By Michael Brady • May 29, 2025

GLP-1 prescriptions for weight loss are shooting up, despite obstacles

The percentage of overweight or obese adults prescribed GLP-1s jumped by almost 587% between 2019 and 2024, according to a new Fair Health report.

By Rebecca Pifer • May 28, 2025

Judge approves Rite Aid pharmacy sales to CVS, Walgreens, others

A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved Rite Aid’s pharmacy asset sales to a variety of buyers. Purchase prices were not disclosed.

By Rebecca Pifer • May 22, 2025

CVS names new president of Oak Street Health

Creagh Milford is taking the reins at the value-based medical group for seniors after Oak Street’s previous president decided to step down.

By Rebecca Pifer • May 22, 2025

Ohio’s Kettering Health hit by cyberattack

Elective inpatient and outpatient procedures at the health system’s facilities were canceled Tuesday.

By Emily Olsen • Updated May 21, 2025

UnitedHealth downgraded by investment banks

TD Cowen, Raymond James and Bank of America have all downgraded UnitedHealth’s stock, citing dogged internal challenges facing the company.

By Rebecca Pifer • May 20, 2025

Regeneron wins bid to buy 23andMe out of bankruptcy

The pharmaceutical company's offer is a bet it can do what 23andMe couldn’t: mine the trove of genetics data the testing firm collects to discover new drug targets.

By Ned Pagliarulo • May 19, 2025

Residents more likely to suffer physical restraints, bedsores at bankrupt nursing homes: report

Researchers said staff turnover following Chapter 11 filings drove some of the adverse patient outcomes, noting less experienced staff tended to provide subpar care.

By Susanna Vogel • May 16, 2025

Rite Aid sells upwards of 1,000 stores to CVS, Walgreens, others

Rite Aid plans to sell the majority of its pharmacies to rival drugstore chains. CVS Health is one of the largest buyers, snapping up prescription files from hundreds of stores and fully acquiring 64 brick-and-mortar locations.

By Rebecca Pifer • May 16, 2025

House committees advance reconciliation text with big impacts on healthcare

Republicans in Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means have approved their portions of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after marathon markups. Here’s an extensive look at what the legislation means for healthcare.

By Rebecca Pifer • May 15, 2025

Medicaid cuts could have ‘drastic impact’ on providers

Some providers may need to reduce services, lay off staff or close their doors if Congress enacts major cuts to the safety-net insurance program, experts say.

By Emily Olsen • May 9, 2025

Shareholders sue UnitedHealth for obfuscating business impacts from Thompson death

The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, alleges that UnitedHealth and its executives didn’t properly warn investors about how the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson would affect its business.

By Rebecca Pifer • May 8, 2025

A public health grant provides a lifeline for pregnant and postpartum women in Colorado. Federal cuts threaten its stability.

The abrupt end of $11 billion in public health grants nationally disrupted a program in Colorado that provides residents critical access to behavioral health and substance abuse support.

By Sydney Halleman • May 7, 2025

UnitedHealth, Amedisys reach new deal to sell home health and hospice locations if merger approved

The sales are contingent on the closure of UnitedHealth’s acquisition of Amedisys, which has been held up after the Department of Justice sued to block the deal last year.

By Emily Olsen • May 6, 2025