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Mayo Clinic rides admissions gains to higher net revenue in 2025
The Rochester, Minnesota-based nonprofit health system said increases in outpatient, hospital and surgical volumes boosted revenue for the year.
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Sponsored by Greenway HealthAutomation with heart: How smarter workflows help clinicians rediscover the joy of medicine
How smarter workflows reduce burnout and restore joy in medicine.
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Hospitals urge regulators to halt drugmakers’ expanded 340B data policies
The American Hospital Association argues new policies from Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk requiring providers to submit more claims data on dispensed 340B drugs is onerous and unlawful.
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Amazon launches suite of healthcare AI agents
Amazon Connect Health can help patients schedule appointments as well as assist providers by creating summaries of patients’ medical histories, documenting care and generating diagnosis and billing codes.
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Optum Rx, Caremark making ‘significant progress’ in settlement talks with FTC
It’s looking increasingly likely that the UnitedHealth and CVS drug middlemen will also make peace with federal regulators, after Cigna agreed to a sweeping settlement in the insulin lawsuit last month.
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CVS, Google Cloud partner on healthcare consumer engagement platform
Health100, set to launch this year, will collect patients’ data from across the healthcare ecosystem, help them find care and use AI to provide education and guidance, CVS said.
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CMS receives record comments on controversial Medicare Advantage payment proposal
The Trump administration wants to keep MA rates flat next year and change how risk adjustment is calculated. Insurers had a lot to say about this, CMS officials shared Tuesday during an event in D.C.
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CMS innovation center remains focused on mandatory models, officials say
CMMI Director Abe Sutton and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz outlined how the administration aims to get more providers, especially poor-performing ones, into value-based models at a D.C. event on Tuesday.
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State Medicaid budgets face $664B cut due to ‘Big Beautiful Bill’: study
Twenty states are projected to experience Medicaid budget reductions of 5% or more from the law’s cuts to the safety-net insurance program, according to the Rand analysis.
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Brian Evanko to succeed David Cordani as CEO of Cigna
Evanko, currently the insurer’s COO, will assume the chief executive role after Cordani retires in July.
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Education Department urged to broaden ‘professional’ student definition
Professional students will be able to borrow $100,000 more than other graduate students, but a proposed rule would exclude certain healthcare fields, like advanced nursing and physician associates, from the higher cap.
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CMS threatens Elevance with Medicare Advantage sanctions
Federal regulators are planning to suspend enrollment in Elevance's MA plans at the end of March, in a rare and serious threat to the company’s finances.
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Trump administration targets DME suppliers in fraud crackdown
The government plans a six-month moratorium on supplier enrollment in the Medicare program to find ways to stop what it called “longstanding instances of fraud, waste, and abuse” by certain companies.
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Provider groups push to preserve some IT certification criteria, including AI ‘model cards’
A proposed rule would cull or revise dozens of health IT certification criteria, but providers say regulators should keep some of them to avoid shifting costs or compliance responsibilities back onto clinicians.
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AMA creates new maternity care coding system
The doctors’ association is blowing up the U.S.’ decades-old coding system for recording pregnancy services and starting fresh next year, bowing to calls from OB-GYNs and other maternity specialists.
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University of Mississippi Medical Center reopens clinics after ransomware attack
The academic medical center’s clinics can once again access patient records and are resuming normal operations more than a week after the attack.
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Former Optum chief departs UnitedHealth
Heather Cianfrocco, an executive vice president at UnitedHealth and former CEO of its health services division Optum, announced she was leaving the company after a 24-year tenure.
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Elevance shuffles C-suite as top Carelon exec departs
The leadership changes at Elevance’s main growth engine Carelon — and the company’s decision to centralize oversight of its health plans — come as Elevance looks to bolster waning profits.
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How PBM reforms could push drugmakers into the pricing spotlight
The Consolidated Appropriations Act’s landmark PBM overhaul removes financial incentives tied to pharma list prices, potentially leaving drugmakers to defend their own practices.
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UHS eyes rising admissions targets this year despite headwinds
The for-profit hospital operator said on a call with investors that it hopes its behavioral health facilities will hit a long-term goal of 2% to 3% growth in adjusted patient days.
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Trump administration halts over $259M in Medicaid funds to Minnesota
The funds would be a fraction of the $11.8 billion in Medicaid funding the state receives from the federal government. The Trump administration said the action was part of a broader crackdown on fraud in federal healthcare programs.
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Teladoc projects lower integrated care membership amid ACA subsidy lapse
The company’s U.S. integrated care membership could decline by nearly 5% at the high end of its projections, management said during an earnings call Wednesday.
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Labcorp expands PathAI pact to roll out digital pathology platform in US
Labcorp’s pathologists will use the software to review, interpret and manage digital images of slides for primary diagnosis.
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Medicare Advantage forced disenrollments rise as insurers exit markets: study
The average rate of forced disenrollments where enrollees had to find a new plan rose from 1% in 2024 to 10% this year, according to research published in JAMA.
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Trump’s State of the Union trumpets healthcare greatest hits, but no new policies
In his lengthy address Tuesday night, the president touted his efforts to make drugs and insurance more affordable but steered clear of hot-button issues like vaccine access and the GOP’s Medicaid cuts.
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Veradigm avoids enforcement action in SEC probe
The investigation began after the health IT company failed to comply with financial reporting requirements, which led to its delisting from the Nasdaq in early 2024.
