CHAI, health center group partner to boost safety-net AI adoption

The organizations will collaborate on guidance for community health centers and other safety-net providers, which face increased barriers to implementing AI.

By Emily Olsen • Aug. 14, 2025

Physicians are working more but reimbursement isn’t keeping pace, report finds

Physicians are working harder now than in past years, but they’re getting less for that work, according to new research from Kaufman Hall. The situation could worsen as more Americans lose health insurance.

By Rebecca Pifer • Aug. 12, 2025

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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

Hospitals prepare for $149B cut to Medicaid state-directed payments

New limits to the program could force hospitals to slash capital spending while bracing for millions of newly uninsured patients.

By Michael Brady • Aug. 12, 2025

Healthcare bankruptcies dipped to 3-year low in the second quarter

Although fewer companies are expected to file for Chapter 11 protections in 2025 relative to last year, significant headwinds remain on the horizon, according to a new report from Gibbins Advisors.

By Susanna Vogel • Aug. 7, 2025

Physicians saw a 3.7% bump in pay last year — but it wasn’t distributed equally

Women and pediatricians were likely to receive lower compensation relative to their peers, according to Doximity's 2025 physician compensation report.

By Susanna Vogel • Aug. 4, 2025

PBM markets lack competition, new paper finds

The American Medical Association’s research, which found that local PBM markets are highly concentrated, is more fuel for critics of the powerful drug middlemen.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 31, 2025

UnitedHealth expects lower profits in 2025 amid medical cost spike

The beleaguered company plans to focus on business fundamentals, cut Medicare Advantage plans, raise prices and forge a new relationship with regulators as it slogs its way back to favored status with Wall Street.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 29, 2025

Medicaid cuts could have ‘far-reaching’ healthcare, economic impacts: study

Coverage losses linked to the massive tax and policy law could drive up excess deaths and preventable hospitalizations by 2034, according to the study in JAMA Health Forum.

By Emily Olsen • July 16, 2025

CMS proposes rule aligning Medicare physician payment with ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ MACRA

The sweeping regulation proposes notable changes to how Medicare pays physicians, but overall results in a modest bump to reimbursement in 2026.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 15, 2025

Walgreens shareholders approve $10B Sycamore acquisition

The transaction, expected to close in the third or fourth quarter, will take Walgreens private after nearly 100 years as a public company.

By Howard Ruben • July 14, 2025

Nursing home operator Genesis Healthcare files for bankruptcy

Affiliates of Genesis’ investor ReGen Healthcare, a private equity firm, have entered into a deal to acquire Genesis, according to bankruptcy court documents.

By Sydney Halleman • July 11, 2025

Insurer ownership of U.S. primary care practices is small but growing: study

The first-of-its-kind research suggests vertical consolidation is being driven by plans wanting to direct more Medicare Advantage members to in-house clinics.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 9, 2025

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 • 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 • July 8, 2025

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 • 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