August 2025

Weekly Update: Johns Hopkins drops UnitedHealth | DOJ investigating Optum Rx | $2.8B BCBS lawsuit | B. Braun recall ()
Economics: Rare disease denials | Physician compensation report | New Eversana worth $6B | 10M to lose coverage ()
AI adoption struggles | Partner voice | Dubious LLM advice, Cancer vaccine, OpenAI’s healthcare push, more ()
Integra recall announced | The rise of ‘fake nurses’ | CDC staffing meltdown | Exclusive MGMA interview ()
BREAKING NEWS: CDC director, chief medical officer ousted as RFK shakes up agency ()
Johns Hopkins drops UnitedHealth | Report: Optum Rx under DOJ investigation | New company takes on PBMs ()
AI reticence | Partner voice | $81M acquisition, AI glucose monitor cleared, more ()
Ransomware attack on DaVita exposes 2.7M patients | $2.8B BCBS settlement approved | Exclusive MGMA interview ()
Weekly Update: $289M CVS judgment | FDA recalls | Fake nurse arrested | UnitedHealth committee | Epic AI scribe | more ()
Older Americans and healthcare AI | Partner voice | 95% fail rate, epic at Epic, AI vs. staffing shortages, more ()
UnitedHealth forms ‘public responsibility’ group | B. Braun recalls dangerous IV bags | Child’s care spurs arrest, lawsuit ()
CVS hit with $289M judgment | Ransomware deployed on biopharma company | Interview: Epic’s new AI clinical scribe ()
Doctors need to lead | Partner voice | Cancer research rethought, Trump/Kennedy healthcare AI, ‘What’s best for the patient?’ ()
Epic announces AI scribe tool, powered by Microsoft | Former CEO of academic hospital sued for $10M over alleged impropriety ()
700 adverse events linked to Tandem insulin pumps | Doctor’s $15M defamation lawsuit results in settlement with Amazon ()
Legal News: Man threatens family of Brian Thompson | Interstate abortion laws | Mangione trial update | Hospital lost bodies ()
FDA issues early alert | Fake nurse cares for 4K people | Exclusive MGMA interview | Two doctors indicted in $7M opioid fraud ()
Weekly Update: Medical journal vs RFK | Injuries spur FDA recall | Hurricane Helene shortage ends | Google, NASA partner on AI ()
Nurse acceptance of AI | Partner voice | AI’s odds of curing cancer, agentic AI’s legal exposure, more ()
Texas sues Eli Lilly for allegedly ‘bribing’ providers | Veterans Affairs sheds 6K clinicians in 2025—and no one is happy ()
Man arrested for threatening family of Brian Thompson | Cancer patient discovers 10-inch surgical device inside body ()
Lawsuit implicates abortion-access nonprofit | FDA recall on breathing system filters | St. Luke’s wins $52M judgment ()
Health tourism and AI | Partner voice | Bad health advice, ChatGPT 5, Colorado punts, more ()
HIPAA violated in Mangione trial? | Prasad reinstated at FDA | Journal denies RFK’s request for retraction of vaccine study ()
Shortage caused by Hurricane Helene is finally over | Google, NASA AI medical assistant | Alabama medical marijuana status ()
Weekly Update: HHS ends support for mRNA vaccines | Navigating online reviews | NIH violated law? | Rare disease drug denials ()
Cybersecurity: Change Healthcare breach impacts 193M | 70% of cyberattacks delay care | Aflac data breach | Kettering sued ()
Humanized healthcare AI | Partner voice | AMA drills into Trump plan, Illinois forbids AI talk therapy, more ()
UnitedHealth-Amedisys greenlighted | Surgeon sued by UnitedHealth nearly bankrupt | Online review facts | Duke partnership ()
Final count: 193M impacted by Change Healthcare breach | HHS ends support for all mRNA vaccines | NIH violated federal law? ()
Best of July: DOJ raids | ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ | Ozone gas fraud | Music bingo death | Best hospitals list | UHC threats ()
Public health and AI wearables | Partner news | Whom to sue, invite into AI governance and altogether avoid ()
NIH’s $8B grant cuts violated law, watchdog says | 54% of rare disease patients denied drugs | ACIP: Pharmacist group biased ()
AI raises the patient experience | Partner voice | Action plan arguments, ways to monetize GenAI in healthcare, more ()
Low-value care in the crosshairs | Physician compensation 2025 | AI boosts patient experience ()
Week in Review: Ranking America's best hospitals | RFK Jr. mulls firing USPSTF | Why more physicians are opting out of Medicare ()
Busy week at the White House | Decision support vs. prior authorization | Fatal MRI accident update ()