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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.

    Updated Feb. 24, 2026
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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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    University of Mississippi Medical Center closes clinics amid ransomware attack

    The academic medical center’s clinics will be closed through Tuesday. The attack, which hit UMMC last week, took its Epic electronic health record system offline.

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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.

    Updated Feb. 21, 2026
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    Tracking 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.

    Updated Feb. 23, 2026
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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.

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    Walgreens to lay off hundreds of employees

    The drugstore retailer said it was simplifying its organization to speed up decisionmaking in a move impacting at least 600 workers.

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    Veradigm cut 15% of its workforce in 2025

    The health IT firm is also cutting back on offices and “low revenue” products as it works to get up to date on its financial filings with regulators, executives said during a call this week.

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    Federal judge strikes down FTC rule expanding premerger reporting requirements

    The regulation required firms to provide more details ahead of mergers, likely chilling dealmaking. The Federal Trade Commission could appeal the ruling.

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    Telehealth use in primary care stabilizes: research

    Since 2023, the share of telehealth visits has held steady at around 6% to 7%, suggesting the sector has reached a new balance between virtual and in-person care, according to Epic Research.

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    GE HealthCare, BARDA ink $35M expansion to AI-enabled imaging deal

    The jointly funded project positions GE HealthCare to develop ultrasound technologies that non-expert users can operate.

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    Prime Healthcare Foundation acquires Maine health system

    Nonprofit Prime Foundation, an affiliate of for-profit hospital operator Prime Healthcare, now owns 21 hospitals across eight states.

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    FDA reverses course on Moderna’s flu vaccine

    Moderna said the agency agreed to move forward and review its application for the mRNA-based shot.

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    Humana’s CenterWell buys primary care provider MaxHealth

    The addition of 82 owned and affiliated clinics in Florida comes as Humana doubles down on its primary care portfolio.

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    Ascension posts net profit as it looks to outpatient growth

    The Catholic health system continues to realign its portfolio as it divests inpatient facilities and grows its ambulatory care and outpatient operations.

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    Demand for outpatient medical buildings growing: reports

    The average fit-out cost to turn space into a medical office building is $412 per square foot, not counting structural upgrades, according to an analysis.

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    Amwell expects lower revenue in 2026

    The health technology company has divested assets and refocused on its core offering, resulting in a smaller top line, executives said on an earnings call last week.

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    HHS elevates officials into Kennedy’s inner circle in advance of midterms

    The HHS secretary has four new senior advisors to help him “move faster and go further” on his Make America Healthy Again agenda. The appointments preempt the GOP’s midterm messaging push.

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    TEFCA, Health Tech Ecosystem are complementary data sharing efforts: officials

    The Health Technology Ecosystem, which the HHS and CMS launched last summer, could accelerate advancements in data exchange and isn’t in competition with the ASTP's own interoperability project, officials said.

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    Lowering drug costs is on Republicans’ minds. Democrats say GOP policies don’t help.

    Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle decried the nation’s high drug costs during a House subcommittee hearing last week. Democrats argued Medicaid cuts and lapsed ACA subsidies are worsening the problem.

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    How the generative AI boom changes healthcare cybersecurity

    Taylor Lehmann, a security executive at Google Cloud, discusses cyber risks in AI systems and how healthcare organizations should prepare.

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    Top healthcare conferences to attend in 2026

    These are the events healthcare leaders should plan for this year, covering topics like digital health, rural care and financial management.

    Updated Jan. 30, 2026