March 2026

Best of March: Squatter patient | FDA emergency recalls | Iran hack | Leapfrog loses in court | AI regulations | New Copilot ()
Study: Physicians who 'fit in' feel less burned out | EFF sues CMS over AI-automated Medicare prior authorizations ()
DOJ sues NYC nonprofit health system over payer contracts | Patient injected with acid in ‘never event’ earns settlement ()
Weekly Update: Docs in moral distress | Faith groups sue UnitedHealth | CMS ditches fax | DOJ sues medical schools | more ()
Economics: Hospitals spike spending 40% | Ransomware crushes revenue 20% | Walgreens cuts jobs | Financial aid mergers ()
Faith-based investors sue UnitedHealth over lack of impact reporting | DOJ probed medical schools over alleged DEI admissions ()
Business News: Microsoft’s healthcare Copilot | Sutter scoops up Allina | Transparency startup raises $95M | Execs charged ()
Top 10 AI stories of the past 30 days ()
Top 10 AI stories of the past 30 days ()
New study measures physician distress | Novartis sued over alleged Google data sharing | Revenue falls 20% after data breach ()
FDA issues warning to drug developer | 80% of docs experience AI misinformation | CMS ditches fax machines | more ()
Fugitive foreign national indicted over $90M Medicare fraud | State regulations on healthcare AI | Deploying scribes at scale ()
Healthcare at the FTC | Nurse education on a cliff? | Unaffordable Obamacare | more ()
In case you missed anything big: Last week’s top 5 stories ()
Americans struggling with $1.2K premiums | Pricing startup hits $95M in funding | Man sentenced for threatening CEO's family ()
Cybersecurity: UMMC data hits dark web | Iran hacks med tech | $5M data heist | Breach impacts 11 pracitices | OIG Audit ()
FDA issues alert after patient death | 100% AI adoption incoming | Sutter, Allina Health merge into $26B nonprofit | more ()
ACIP meeting postponed as judge blocks RFK’s vaccine plans | Data trove allegedly from UMMC hack posted for sale on dark web ()
Telehealth company admits to sharing records with law firms | Stolen data complaint against Geisinger, Nuance settled for $5M ()
Microsoft launches healthcare Copilot AI | Squatter patient sued after living in hospital | APG COO dies in scuba accident ()
Weekly Update: Iran’s healthcare cyberattack | TriZetto hack impacts 3.4M | 5 injured by exploding cryoprobes | Grade scandal ()
Policy: PBM antitrust update | FDA merges all adverse event reporting | CMS interoperability standard | HHS ditches Claude ()
FDA launches new adverse event reporting platform | Data breach on NYC care management group impacts 5K | Iran healthcare hack ()
Iranian-backed hackers claim credit for healthcare data breach | Aetna settles DOJ Medicare Advantage fraud case for $118M ()
Legal News: ‘Deceptive’ safety grades | Executive indicted | CMS fraud crackdown | DOJ sues health system | $556M settlement ()
FDA emergency alert after 5 serious injuries | TriZetto confirms year-long breach impacted 3.4M | MGMA on legislative action ()
Leapfrog safety grades in crosshairs as court sides with Tenet hospitals | $15M in Medicare fraud earns chiropractor 43 months ()
FTC seeking settlement with UnitedHealth, CVS | ExThera executive indicted, company fined $5.7M over deaths | Racism lawsuit ()
Weekly Update: Cloud AI patient engagement | $50M ‘straw sale’ scheme | Nonprofits merge | mHealth hesitancy | HHS vs Claude ()
Best of February: Music bingo death | Kaiser strike | AAP faces RICO case | Data-driven staffing | UMMC ransomware attack ()
Healthcare AI news | $50M drug diversion conspiracy results in convictions | Nuance, health system settle lawsuit for $5M ()
Financial aid groups merge to fight inflation | Clover Health becomes first payer to align with CMS interoperability standard ()
HHS drops Claude AI as Trump feuds with developer | Study: Do older patients shy away from mHealth? | Data breach impacts 140K ()
Post-COVID, nurses remain unhappy | UMMC reopens clinics over a week after ransomware attack | Labcorp expands use of AI ()
NSA ‘zero trust’ cybersecurity for hospitals? | Emergency rooms, outpatient care account for 40% of national spending | more ()
Weekly Update: UMMC on paper backups after ransomware attack | 2 injuries spur FDA recall | ViVE news roundup | DOJ lawsuit ()