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As of Jan. 20, according to the World Health Organization, the U.S. has not paid its dues for 2024 and 2025, which would total $260 million.

The agent will give members a new way to interface with the One Medical app. It can answer general questions and schedule visits, among other capabilities.

Imagenet CEO Greg Carnes explains how governed automation helps payers cut rework costs, scale operations and maintain audit readiness.

Amid an uptick in attacks against healthcare workers, provider organizations say they need new guidance and clear examples of violence prevention signage that doesn't run afoul of EMTALA.

In bill text released by House appropriators Tuesday, Republicans proposed to extend Medicare telehealth flexibilities by two years and hospital at home for five. Both chambers have yet to vote on the multiagency funding package.

The executives at several leading health insurers faced a gauntlet on Capitol Hill, speaking in back-to-back hearings about the affordability of healthcare.

From wearables to multi-omics, explore the trends shaping the future of laboratory medicine and bringing transformation to diagnostics in 2026.

The new capital will be used to accelerate the rollout of Zarminali’s proprietary tech platform, enter new markets and open de novo clinics.

The deal for 180-bed Crestwood Medical Center, set to close in Q2, will add a fifteenth hospital to the northern Alabama-based nonprofit system.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is soliciting proposals for researchers to build a patient-facing AI agent for cardiovascular health.

UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen Hemsley said that the insurance giant will rebate profits from its Affordable Care Act plans back to customers.

Ayesha Appa, M.D., hailing from the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), is the company’s latest physician executive. Her goal is to bring clinical authority to the company, helping ensure ongoing clinical excellence, and to define what quality in substance use disorder looks like beyond abstinence.

OpenEvidence banked $250 million in series D funding to invest heavily in the R&D and compute costs associated with its multi-AI agentic architecture.

The hype is all about generative AI, but in this episode we explore whether the real gains lie in getting the administrative basics right.

More than 600 healthcare organizations have joined the Health Tech Ecosystem pledge since July 30. The goal is to have tangible results from these pledges go live by March 31, CMS official Amy Gleason said.

Experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Emergency Physicians and others said high adherence to the practices could save the lives of more than 2,100 children nationwide.

The House Appropriations Committee has unveiled proposed outlays for the Department of Health and Human Services, including key investments in priorities within the Make America Healthy Again movement and long-discussed pharmacy benefit manager oversight.

The Centurion Foundation has struggled for months to secure financing to purchase two hospitals from bankrupt Prospect and over the weekend asked state officials to fast-track an $18 million reserve fund to settle the nerves of potential investors.

Epic claims Health Gorilla and the health tech companies requested patient records to market them to lawyers looking for potential claimants with specific conditions and diagnoses that would qualify them to join mass tort class-action lawsuits.

Judi Health is expanding its work further with the launch of the Judi Group, an advisory firm aimed at supporting health plan fiduciaries in identifying compliance gaps, contract inconsistences and underlying cost drivers.