May 2025

Risks of remote patient monitoring | Partner voice | MAHA’s AI stumble, OpenAI’s healthcare offensive, Mayo’s AI startups ()
Elon Musk out of Trump Administration | Walmart launches AI tool for Medicare Advantage customers | more ()
MAHA releases first report | Neurosurgeon wins $5.8M retaliation lawsuit | 19% of homecare dropping telemedicine ()
AI simplification of care complexity | Partner voice | AI vs. medication errors, employment apocalypse fears, more ()
CDC changing COVID vaccine recommendations | Interview: Academic-tech collaboration aims to reduce opioid overdoses ()
FDA Class I alert on esophagogastric tubes | CMS changing ACO REACH model | Ozempic lawsuits pile up ()
Economics: Trump drug prices EO | UHC and Amedisys merger | AHA warning | $600M PE investments | Aetna leaving marketplace ()
Weekly Update: Latest UnitedHealth scandal | Upcoding on the rise | COVID vaccine changes | Ransomware attack | Rite Aid sold ()
Legal News: UnitedHealth under investigation | Hospitals sue Leapfrog | Michigan vs. PBMS | Wrong organ removal | more ()
Med students need digital training | Partner voice | OpenAI goes to the UAE, patients get cyberchondria, more ()
UnitedHealth accused of delaying hospital transfers | CMS ramps up Medicare Advantage audits | Kettering held for ransom ()
FDA outlines new COVID vaccine framework | Tom Price interview on physician shortages | $15M fine for guilty nursing homes ()
AI tests lucidity in seniors | Partner voice | American AI in the United Arab Emirates, med schools embrace AI, more ()
Ongoing hospital cyberattack results in scam calls | Patient sues Allina Health alleging wrong organ was extracted | More ()
Lavish kickback conspiracy costs health system $32M | Rite Aid sells over 1,000 stores | Small pharmacies hoarding drugs ()
Upcoding on the rise in ER | Exclusive Tom Price interview on immigration | CVS, Kroger bid on Rite Aid pharmacies ()
Weekly Update: Amazon One Medical wrongful death case | Epic sued | Pentagon ends trans care | HHS restructuring halted ()
Healthcare AI unicorns | Partner voice | Trump exports AI, the FDA gets a CAIO, true AI value, more ()
Report: DOJ investigating UnitedHealth | Industry lobby calls for tariff relief | $1.8M settlement over Optum robocalls ()
Cybersecurity: Epic sued over nudes | Oracle data breach | Maryland vs Change | Vulnerabilities in monitors | ChatGPT exploit ()
DOJ pausing enforcement of mental health parity rule | Epic sued over alleged data blocking ()
UnitedHealth CEO steps down | Amazon One Medical wrongful death lawsuit | Rite Aid closes 68 stores ()
AI for physical vs. mental health | Partner voice | FDA’s ‘rush’ to the AI altar, AI and Medicare Advantage, more ()
Trump issues sweeping EO on drug prices | Judge halts HHS staffing cuts in latest challenge | Pentagon ends transgender care ()
Coalition of states sue CVS for fraud | UnitedHealth, Amedisys divest to appease DOJ | Breach delays care at provider group ()
Weekly Update: UnitedHealth sued by shareholders | Rite Aid bankrupt again | 19 states sue HHS | Insurance company kickbacks ()
FDA begins massive AI rollout | UnitedHealth sued by shareholders | PE firm unveils $600M healthcare investment plans ()
Universal AI determinants | Partner voice | FDA’s AI gambit & blind spot, agentic AI again, more ()
Leapfrog accused of ‘pay-to-play’ scheme | TV writer’s company allegedly exploiting ACA | Republicans back off Medicaid cuts ()
Michigan sues PBMs over unlawful collusion | Rite Aid closing stores as it files second Chapter 11 bankruptcy ()
Coalition of 19 states sue HHS | FDA rehires fired workers | Nurse faces charges after injuries on NICU ward ()
When AI impedes care | Partner voice | UnitedHealth hearts AI, agentic AI again, healthcare AI dependency, more ()
$33B cuts proposed for HHS | DOJ sues Medicare Advantage insurers over kickbacks | ‘Gold Standard’ vaccine platform incoming ()
Weekly Update: SCOTUS sides with HHS | AHA warns of economic turmoil | Patients sue for medical weed | Mangione enters plea ()
AHA report reveals turmoil from tariffs | Addiction treatment scandal linked to seedy motel | Aetna withdraws from ACA markets ()
Portal-trained AI | Partner voice | Devices of unknown generalizability, promises of uncertain keepability, more ()
BlueShield data breach exposes 4.7M patients | Optum taps new CEO | Alabama patients sue over stalled medical cannabis program ()