CVS Omnicare ordered to pay $949 million in government fraud case

CVS plans to appeal the judgment, which comes after a jury ruled that its long-term care pharmacy benefits manager illegally charged Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare for prescription drugs for almost a decade.

By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • July 9, 2025

Humana agrees to purchase bankrupt Florida provider The Villages Health for $50M

The insurer’s bid is preliminary and kicks off an auction for the debt-laden provider, which decided to pursue bankruptcy after discovering it owed Medicare hundreds of millions of dollars.

By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • July 8, 2025

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Provider burnout

Hospitals are still struggling with provider burnout, after the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated underlying staffing issues and prompted workers to quit their jobs.

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UnitedHealth changes leadership at care delivery unit

Patrick Conway, who recently became chief executive of the larger Optum health services division, will replace Dr. Amar Desai as CEO of Optum Health.

By Emily Olsen • June 30, 2025

FDA stops Olympus devices from entering the US

The agency said it issued the import alerts because it “continues to have concerns related to outstanding Quality System regulation violations by Olympus.”

By Nick Paul Taylor • June 30, 2025

Health plans have a behavioral health problem and the answer is hiding in their data

Health plans have the data they need to address critical behavioral health blind spots. Learn how.

By Jeremy Kreyling, Senior Vice President, Healthcare Informatics, NeuroFlow • June 30, 2025

Walgreens swings to a loss ahead of Sycamore acquisition

Store closures and weak front-of-store sales led to a retail sales decline in Q3, but U.S. pharmacy and international sales were strong.

By Daphne Howland • June 26, 2025

Maintaining healthcare access and affordability increasingly difficult: report

Providers will need to make difficult decisions about what services they offer and where amid growing headwinds, according to a new report from S&P Global Ratings.

By Susanna Vogel • June 24, 2025

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 Parduhn • June 16, 2025

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 Parduhn • 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 Parduhn • 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 Parduhn • 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 Parduhn • 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 Parduhn • 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 Parduhn • 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 Parduhn • 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