September 2025

Saint Mary’s awarded $510M judgment against UHS | Health benefits company hit by data breach exposing PHI ()
Trump’s ‘national security’ tariffs on medtech | Death linked to pay-for-play nursing school | LCMC settles privacy lawsuit ()
Weekly Update: Autism-Tylenol link? | Bill to speed up MA reimbursement | New COVID guidance | Medical marijuana leak ()
FDA warns of autism-Tylenol link, despite ‘no causal relationship’ | Omnicare files for bankruptcy after $949M judgment ()
Blind prior-auth AI pilots, a sputtering healthtech romance, solo AI surgeons & more | PLUS: News from our industry partners ()
Bipartisan bill would give Medicare Advantage plans 2 weeks to pay claims | Exactech settles knee implant case for $8M ()
Ascension data breach lawsuit advances | Medical marijuana company sued after 1M records leak online | MGMA interview ()
Economics: Prices rise 15% after PE buyouts | UnitedHealth lobbies Trump | Mayo Clinic closures | 10M to lose coverage ()
Major screening AI trial | AI’s insatiable appetite for data | AI prior auth for Medicare | Partner voices ()
IT outage forces 7 hospitals to divert care | Premier sold to PE for $2.6B | Medicaid cuts close homeless shelter ()
CDC to change COVID vaccine guidance | Doximity vs OpenEvidence in medical AI fight | Hospital detained wrong man for 3 years ()
Weekly Update: 55% of clinicians want new jobs | ‘Operation Nightingale’ arrests 10 | Joystick recall | MGMA interview ()
EMS looks to AI | Partner news | Inflationary AI, China’s AI and ours, Joint Commission AI guidance + more ()
48% of healthcare groups experienced data breaches in 2025 | Children’s hospitals deploy AI-powered robot companion ()
Legal News: Whistleblower sues Verily | Mangione charges dropped | UnitedHealth lobbies Trump | Epic data blocking ()
12 arrested in ‘Operation Nightingale’ | Mayo Clinic debuts AI nursing assistant | MGMA asks Congress to support telehealth ()
Older folks and healthcare AI | Partner voices | AI regs, Stanford HAI, real-world WISeR, more ()
Terrorism charges against Mangione dropped | Wheelchair joysticks recalled after injury | UnitedHealth seeks Trump meeting ()
55% of clinicians looking for new jobs | 11% of adults uninsured | MGMA warns end of ACA subsidies could strain hospitals ()
Weekly Update: Mayo Clinic closes 6 locations | AI-driven layoffs | Florida man a ‘fake nurse’ | Epic data-blocking lawsuit ()
Remote patient monitoring AI | Partner voice | Oracle reborn, care affordability, healthcare jobs, more ()
Whistleblower: Google’s Verily violated HIPAA, exposed 25K patients | Health system settles ad tracking lawsuit for $18M ()
FTC sends warnings to healthcare groups about illegal noncompetes | Another ‘fake nurse’ arrested in Florida ()
AI vs. substance abuse | Partner voice | AI-enabled layoffs, following the AI money, AI to unscrew healthcare, more ()
Mayo Clinic closing 6 locations | 177 laid off as health system adopts AI | Teens develop chatbot for medical bills ()
Antitrust lawsuit against Epic advances | 100+ apply for autism grants | Director arrested over hidden cameras in hospital ()
Cybersecurity: Hackers inside hospital for months | Medicare breach leaks 103K IDs | UnitedHealth exposes 5.5M | Change update ()
Insurance premiums to rise 7% in 2026 | Report: HHS ready to link autism to maternal Tylenol use | more ()
Weekly Update: 1K employees ask RFK to resign | Florida ends vaccine mandates | DOJ sues nursing homes | CVS fined $12M ()
AI’s elusive money trail | Partner voice | Healthcare AI on Capitol Hill, publicly traded AI recalls, more ()
HHS to restore deleted ‘DEI’ info | Hack exposes 140K | Trump buries study linking alcohol to cancer ()
1,000 HHS employees call for RFK to resign | Florida looks to end all vaccine mandates | Update: DOJ sues nursing homes ()
AI lag in primary care | Partner voice | Gen Z job angst, AI anti-therapy, animal testing phaseout , more ()
Former CDC directors admonish RFK | DOJ sues over ‘grossly substandard’ care at nursing homes | Class I FDA recall ()
CVS to pay Massachusetts $12M to settle drug overpricing lawsuit | NP, nonprofit challenge Missouri’s practice regulations ()
Best of August: Surgery horror | CVS fined $289M | Fake nurse | RFK vs. journals | Best hospitals | Epic’s AI Scribe ()