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    Trinity Health to lay off 557 IT workers

    It’s the second wave of layoffs at the nonprofit this year. Trinity said financial pressures and increasingly complex technology requirements were driving it to outsource some tech roles.

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    Finance is ‘leaning in’ to manage healthcare costs, WTW exec says

    CFOs are increasingly partnering with human resource executives to help trim rising healthcare costs, WTW’s Tim Stawicki says.

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    Mass General Brigham health plan drops MA coverage for Dana-Farber patients

    The contract lapse comes as the health system and cancer institute wind down a decades-old partnership.

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    Cambia, Arkansas Blue Cross affiliation moves ahead

    No assets are changing hands as a result of the deal, which is expected to close this October with Cambia assuming control of the Arkansas Blue plan’s operations.

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    Tracking healthcare data breaches

    A June cyberattack on home medical equipment company AdaptHealth may have impacted the data of more than 4.1 million people.

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    Lawmakers to subpoena Oracle execs as EHR project costs rise

    After nearly tripling its contract ceiling with the VA to $27 billion, Congress wants to hear from Oracle’s Executive Chairman Larry Ellison and CEO Mike Sicilia about the project’s escalating costs and lengthy timeline.

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    Adena Health acquires Fairfield Medical Center after antitrust scrutiny

    Pressured by federal antitrust concerns, Fairfield Medical Center has completed a merger with Adena Health after pivoting from a planned sale to state giant OhioHealth.

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    Why AI scribes are a malpractice risk, according to experts

    The technology can make clinical documentation mistakes that are hard to detect, leading to potential medical errors and lawsuits as health systems increase their use.

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    HaloMD says No Surprises is lowering spending on emergency care. Researchers aren’t convinced.

    The NSA has saved at least $1 billion on out-of-network emergency medical spending, according to the billings firm’s new study. But HaloMD’s methodology leaves something to be desired, independent experts said.

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    Medicare spent hundreds of millions of dollars on ineligible drugs, audit finds

    Shoddy CMS oversight is to blame, and the agency needs to do better, the HHS Office of the Inspector General said. The CMS concurred.

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    UnitedHealthcare cuts prior authorization from 1,700 codes

    The list tells providers what treatments will no longer need preapproval this October, part of UnitedHealthcare’s pledge to cull 30% of its much-maligned utilization management controls. The codes span a broad range of services.

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    DaVita agrees to pay $15M to settle claims from data breach

    The dialysis provider has opted to settle a proposed class action lawsuit stemming from a data breach last year that impacted 2.7 million people.

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    Johns Hopkins Health Plans taps interim CEO as it searches for successor

    Daniel Chojnowski, JHHP’s current CFO, will provide stability so that the Baltimore-area insurer can recruit full-time for its next chief executive, the company said.

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    Sanford-North Memorial deal closes after systems ink oversight agreement

    The systems agreed to 10 years of state oversight and $600 million in investments as South Dakota-based Sanford moves into the Twin Cities.

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    McKesson confirms data theft in cyberattack involving third-party apps

    The healthcare distributor said the incident affected a subset of customers in its oncology and medical-surgical businesses.

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    Mid-cap biotechs join Trump’s latest round of drug pricing deals

    Focused on Medicaid, the new pacts now involve more than just large pharmaceutical companies.

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    Medicaid losses leave more patients paying cash, Epic finds

    An analysis of more than 550 million healthcare encounters from the EHR giant’s research division illuminates how restricting Medicaid coverage leaves low-income patients more directly on the hook for medical bills.

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    Teladoc nabs insurance veteran as new CFO

    Michael Grasher is joining Teladoc effective immediately, filling a finance leadership vacuum left after Mala Murthy departed in November.

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    Centene taps Fannie Mae executive as CIO

    Bradley Bolivar is taking the reins of Centene’s IT strategy as artificial intelligence drives a sea change for how insurers do business.

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    Florida attorney general sues PBMs Express Scripts, Prime over alleged price fixing

    A deal between rival drug middlemen Prime Therapeutics and Express Scripts depressed reimbursement rates for pharmacies, according to the new complaint. It’s the latest legal challenge against the partnership.

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    Specialty providers refute hefty Georgetown estimates of No Surprises costs

    Researchers estimate that independent dispute resolution has created $22 billion in unnecessary spending. But that estimate is flawed, argue associations representing anesthesiologists, radiologists and ER doctors.

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    Boston Scientific says cyberattack has disrupted product manufacturing

    The attack has affected the company’s ability to manufacture products and to process and ship customers’ orders. There’s still no timeline for restoration.

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    Humana-owned Villages Health agrees to $542M settlement for overbilling Medicare

    The Central Florida provider manufactured fake diagnosis codes for its Medicare Advantage patients from 2020 to 2024, the DOJ said. Humana bought The Villages Health last year.

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    Physicians want compensation boost from AI productivity gains: survey

    More than 65% of physicians use AI daily or weekly for clinical or administrative work — and some believe they should be paid more if the tech increases their efficiency, according to a Doximity report.

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    Most Americans want providers to disclose AI use, report says

    Nearly half of adults don’t know whether AI has been used in their care, even as hospitals and doctors rapidly adopt the technology, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.