April 2025

Economy: HHS budget leak | FTC vs PBMs on hold | PE bankruptcy report | Rural provider erosion | 44% of U.S. underinsured ()
Supreme Court votes 7-2 with HHS in hospital payment dispute | Warren fears ‘pharmacy deserts’ as PE buys Walgreens ()
Ad agency view of healthcare AI | Partner voice | Bill Gates, structured timelines, China tariffs, more ()
Report: Trump tariffs to raise drug prices 12.9% | 5.6M records exposed in Yale cyberattack ()
Mangione pleads ‘not guilty' as federal trial moves forward | HHS and RFK sued again over $11B public health cuts | more ()
Weekly Update: FDA emergency alerts | DeSantis in $10M Medicaid scandal | UPS expands healthcare wing | Walgreens fined $300M ()
DeSantis accused of diverting $10M in Medicaid funds | UPS Healthcare expands in North America with $1.6B purchase | more ()
FDA issues Class I recall on dangerous infusion bags | Homecare provider sentenced 14 months for COVID fraud | more ()
Nurses and AI | Partner voice | AI for Medicare folk, AI uncertainty at the FDA, generative ghosts, more ()
DOJ asks medical journals about ‘misinformation’ and bias | SCOTUS likely to uphold ACA provision, experts say ()
FDA alert on BD catheters after 10 serious injuries | Walgreens settles DOJ opioid crisis case for $300M | more ()
Quality control the AI way | Partner voice | AI-eager doctors, AI-reticent buyers, AI cost worriers, more ()
Trump to end civil service protections for 50K workers | HHS budget cuts most nursing programs, closes NINR | more ()
Weekly Update: UnitedHealth garnishing claims | Mangione indicted | Leaked HHS budget | FDA ending animal testing | more ()
Cybersecurity: Change garnishing claims | Oracle denies breach | Ransomware coverup | 84% of healthcare hit in 2024 ()
Leaked HHS budget shows 30% cuts to core services | Federal grand jury officially charges Luigi Mangione with murder | more ()
AI’s story arc | Partner voice | Lifecyle AI oversight, data still matters, AI vs. animals, more ()
UnitedHealth’s $3.3B buyout enters mediation | Epic, hospitals sued over nude photo data breach | DaVita ransomware update ()
Trump orders changes to Medicare drug price negotiations | Kidney provider chain hit by ransomware | more ()
2 kinds of AI | Partner voice | Newswatch: AI humanizes healthcare, ‘the worst AI will ever be,’ more ()
UnitedHealth garnishing claims for Change hack loans | Doc gets prison, $20M fine for telehealth fraud | more ()
FDA to end animal testing for new drugs | Consumers driving patient engagement trends | Trump's pharma tariffs | more ()
Weekly Update: Mysterious brain tumors | Trump tariffs | Supreme Court backs DOGE | CMS boosts MA | Oncologist shortage ()
GenAI confidence building | Partner voice | RFK Jr. for animal-saving AI, Dr. Oz’s big plans for AI at CMS, more ()
Trump lifts tariffs, promises more coming for drugs | UMMC sued after employee allegedly hacks computers to spy on women ()
Supreme Court gives DOGE and Trump a win | Mysterious brain tumors impacting staff at Boston hospital | more ()
‘Uneven, imperfect’ ambient AI | Partner voice | Silent AI threats, overeager clinical AI, trustworthy AI therapists, more ()
CMS boosts MA payments as Dr. Oz takes over | Judge halts HHS’s $11B cut to state healthcare programs ()
Interview: Rising cancer rates during oncologist shortage | Rural U.S. lost 3,300 providers | more ()
AI buyers & sellers | Partner voice | Newswatch: Fail-fast AI skunk works, writerly doctors avoiding AI scribes, more ()
Dr. Oz confirmed to CMS by Senate | FTC halts case against PBMs after Trump firings | more ()
Report claims Musk is leaving DOGE in ‘coming weeks’ | Oracle Health confirms second attack, denies its cloud was hacked ()
Thousands fired as HHS staffing purge begins | DOJ seeking death penalty in murder case against Luigi Mangione ()
Oracle Health suffers data breach; hospitals extorted | ‘Luigi Mangione Act’ proposed in California | more ()
AI discharge planning | Partner voice | Newswatch: Apple’s AI Doctor, AI’s most expectant medical specialties, more ()