July 2025

Most Americans unhappy with Medicaid cuts, tariffs | More docs opting out of Medicare | Price hikes & buyouts ()
Farewell, USPSTF? | America’s best hospitals | Joint Commission focusing on pediatrics ()
LLM harm reduction | Partner voice | Woke AI pros & cons, Doximity’s free AI scribe, more ()
Medicare Advantage regulation proposed | Lawsuit challenges state abortion protections | Uninsured stroke patient denied care ()
Weekly Update: UnitedHealth investigated | Music bingo death | 10M to lose health coverage | Cancer vaccine update ()
UnitedHealth confirms it's being investigated by DOJ | Report: Organ donation programs endanger patients | VA’s $800M upgrades ()
AI and telehealth | Partner voice | Trump’s American AI offensive, healthcare’s lack of regulatory cohesion, more ()
CBO: 10M people to lose insurance as a result of ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ | Game of music bingo results in death of a patient ()
AstraZeneca investing $50B in U.S. manufacturing | Humana challenges MA star ratings | Dignity Health sued over missing bodies ()
AI: Equity’s friend or frenemy? | Partner voice | AI stink-eye, super-eager clinical adopters, more ()
Practice consolidation increased care costs by 15% | Poll: Americans oppose Trump’s tariffs, Medicaid cuts ()
Legal News: DOJ’s $14.6B crackdown | Purdue settles with states | $949M judgment against CVS | Ozone gas doc arrested ()
Human cancer vaccine shows promise | Pain doctor charged by DOJ in sexual abuse case | FDA recalls manual resuscitators ()
Weekly Update: Hospital sues insurer over AI denials | FDA recalls | Senate bill to revoke Medicaid cuts | Steward lawsuit ()
FDA recalls glucose monitors after 56 injuries | Two insurers dominate Medicare Advantage market | Former Steward CEO sued ()
AI & hospital logistics | Partner voice | Pittsburgh’s bonanza, Bay area’s superstars, Dr. Google’s followers, more ()
Hawley introduces bill to void Medicaid cuts | FDA recall after 10 injuries | Insurer sued over $2M in AI-based claim denials ()
HHS formally fires nearly 10,000 workers following SCOTUS ruling | Report: 70% of healthcare cyberattacks delay patient care ()
AI & quality improvement | Partner voice | Trump’s calculated risks, healthcare’s sluggish revolution, simple AI math, more ()
Report: UnitedHealth accused of silencing critics | Medical debt reporting rule vacated | DOJ drops COVID fraud charges ()
Walgreens shareholders approve $10B private equity buyout | 200% drug tariffs | FDA accelerating AI approval | AMA vs BBB ()
Weekly Update: What’s in the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill?' | FDA recalls | $949M judgment against CVS | Medicare fraud at UHC? ()
Cybersecurity: Medicare ID fraud | Aflac attacked | Episource exposes 5.5M records | Kettering sued | Amazon scandal ()
LVHN admits to violating Controlled Substances Act in $2.75M settlement | Samsung buys Xealth | Class I FDA recall ()
Critical care AI | Partner voice | HL7 Int’l opens AI office, epidemiologist harbors AI skepticism, more ()
Serious FDA recall | DOJ investigates UnitedHealth | CVS fined $949M | AMA combats scope of practice creep ()
VA halts mass layoffs as it sheds 30,000 jobs | Doctor indicted on $5.2M ozone gas fraud | AMA laments U.S. healthcare crisis ()
Chronic condition AI | Partner news | Nurses called to AI action, ‘big beautiful’ law, of mice and AI, more ()
Zooming in on what the 'Big, Beautiful Bill' means for healthcare | HHS, RFK sued over COVID policy shifts | more ()
Best of June: AMA interview | Leaked UnitedHealth memo | Landmark COVID trial | DOGE lawsuits | Kettering cyberattack ()
Weekly Update: DOJ arrests 324 | Medicare data breach | Provider pay survey | Best Buy divests | Baxter recall ()
Massive spending bill passes with Medicaid cuts | Woman charged with terrorism on UnitedHealth | PE firm buys Arcadia ()
Listen in on Russia-China plotting | Partner voice | Mayo book, fraud busting, ‘shapeless monsters,’ more ()
Provider pay up 4.9% in 2024 | Lab owner pleads not guilty to $290M in COVID fraud | Restrained patient dies at hospital ()
Baxter pumps recalled due to mismatched software | CMS ‘data incident’ exposes 103K | Philips and Medtronic expand partnership ()
Rural healthcare AI | Partner voice | Microsoft’s supersmart medical AI, LLMs don’t really care, more ()
DOJ arrests 324 for $14.6B in fraud | PeaceHealth not liable for stroke misdiagnosis | Best Buy divests from at-home care ()