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The Trump administration has finalized the rule for government payments to hospital outpatient facilities and ambulatory surgical centers, including a 2.6% rate bump for each.

The partners involved are Public Health Solutions, New York City’s largest public health nonprofit; Hyphen, a health tech company; and the Coalition of Asian-American IPA, representing independent docs that serve Asian Americans.

An insurer the size of UnitedHealthcare has a treasure trove of data, and that's one of the driving factors in the insurance giant's approach to artificial intelligence.

The CMS clarified that telehealth providers can submit any telehealth claims they held during the shutdown and fixed an outstanding technical issue on reporting home addresses to the CMS.

Drugmaker Eli Lilly is rolling out a new model to make it easier for employers to provide access to its GLP-1 drugs for weight management.

With its focus on radiology and cardiology practices, as well as assisting in clinical trials, Intelerad’s outpatient footprint will serve as a complement to GE HealthCare’s in-hospital imaging business.

Democrats in the House have introduced a new bill that aims to further expand Medicare's ability to negotiate drug prices.

Changes to a public health webpage undercut the medical community's consensus rebuke of childhood vaccines as a cause of autism. They were swiftly condemned by public health advocates and the Senate's top healthcare legislator.

LeapSpace is an AI-assisted workspace for researchers to carry out multiple tasks in one secure environment. Users can use it to generate ideas, plan projects, explore literature, find collaborators and identify funding opportunities.

A San Francisco jury convicted the founder and a former top doctor at telehealth company Done Global of conspiring to distribute Adderall and other stimulants online.

The draft document, obtained by Fierce Healthcare, lays out a plan to litigate against states with AI laws and withhold federal funds to states with AI laws. President Donald Trump has said state laws create barriers to AI innovation.

The U.S. health system urgently needs to update its approach to quality measurement for women’s health.

Function Health, a startup that offers lab testing and body scans for early disease detection, scored nearly $300 million in series B funding, boosting its valuation to $2.5 billion.

Abbott has signed up to buy Exact Sciences in the largest diagnostics deal to date, acquiring the maker of the Cologuard at-home screening test for colorectal cancer and new blood-based tests for multiple tumors.

General Medicine co-founder TJ Parker spoke with Fierce Healthcare about how the startup's approach is different than the first wave of DTC digital health companies and how it's bridging primary care and specialty care.

Among MDaudit's network of 1.2 million providers, the average amounts of a hospital's denied inpatient and outpatient claims rose 12% and 14%, respectively, from 2024, the platform shared in a new report.

The Affordable Care Act has been a political football through much of its history, and the landmark healthcare law was back in the center spotlight at a hearing in the Senate on Wednesday.

The five-hospital nonprofit will receive an $800 million investment from the academic health system under the terms of their deal, expected to close in the fall of 2026.

In a virtual fireside chat on Tuesday with Scripta Insights CEO Eric Levin, Mark Cuban spoke passionately about the potential of simplified contracting and cash pay. Scripta is a partner of Cuban’s company Cost Plus Drugs.

The latest in a string of layoff announcements across the 51-hospital nonprofit closely follows quarterly financials showing, for the first time in years, an operating gain.