May 2026

Economics: PE hospital now a nonprofit | Reducing prior authorizations by 30% | Practice consolidation | GLP-1 price spike ()
Weekly Update: CVS sues over PBM laws | Black matter in IV spurs FDA alert | Ebola response | Hospital network buys CHCP ()
Primary care as a utility | CDC seeking volunteers to contain Ebola | Walmart partners with Teladoc | Ambient AI lawsuits ()
FDA issues black matter alert | Social worker violence | HCA buys healthcare college | Advanced access advantages ()
CVS sues Tennessee as PBM bill becomes law | Ōura Ring files paperwork to go public | Healthcare fraud busting | more ()
CVS faces $250M lawsuit | Connecticut Medicaid hacked | PE hospital chain switches to nonprofit | Licensing clinical AI ()
Top AI stories: AI goes native, AI cybersecurity wars, executive AI buy-in + 7 more from the past 30 days ()
Weekly Update: Suicide rates in men rise | Long COVID | Medtronic’s $650M buy | NYC’s 1.8M data breach | Staffing deaths ()
Long COVID returns | $11M Amtrak healthcare plan caper | Three viewpoints | Exclusive AMGA interview ()
Business News: FTC settles with private equity practice | Corporatizing medicine | Health system mergers | Docs retiring young ()
New York data breach claims 1.8M victims | Medtronic makes $650M pain device acquisition | War on drug losses | AI update ()
Staffing struggles linked to 3 deaths | Coalition of states challenge degree caps | Catholic system sued over maternity policy ()
Top CYBERSECURITY stories: When Mythos met Mozilla, hackers vs. henchmen, clumsy ransomware, more ()
SEC ends ‘gag rule’ enforcement | Key evidence allowed in at Mangione trial | Brokers entering $10B Medicare Advantage market ()
Overdoses, suicides rise for men | Community health ROI | PBM changes to ‘transparent’ model | Maternal burnout support ()
Weekly Update: GLP-1s spike employer healthcare costs | AI’s ‘7 deadly sins’ | Investor-owned PCPs | Hospice enrollment pause ()
Legal News: Bill would bar PBMs from owning stores | Maggot therapy | AI impersonator lawsuit | Doc charged with manslaughter ()
Congress proposes PBM law | ‘Seven deadly sins’ of AI | Malpractice lawsuit over dirty wound | Best countries for care ()
CMS pauses Medicare hospice enrollment for six months | Provider practice consolidation ramping up | Healthcare DEI study ()
Post-Makary FDA | Private equity + primary care | Pediatric tech vendors ()
Just in: Turnover at the top of the FDA ()
Consulting ‘Dr. ChatGPT’ | 87% of employers blame GLP-1s for rising costs | Study: Telehealth expansion works | $2.5M fraud ()
Top POLICY stories: Hospital CEOs hounded, insurance companies excused, MAHA meals fought over, 7 more ()
Healthcare CEO gets 5 years for role in $212M conspiracy | US ranks high in avoidable deaths | AI discharge notes deemed safe ()
Weekly Update: $50 GLP-1s | AI impersonates doctor | Surgical sponge shortage | Cybersecurity wars | ‘Maggot therapy’ lawsuit ()
$50 GLP-1s for Medicare patients | Public perception of EDs | Physicians quitting while young | Organ donation lawsuit ()
30-day review: Emergency alert, moral distress, ‘fake’ telehealth, 7 more ()
State sues after bot impersonates doctor | FDA adds surgical devices to shortage list after Medline recall | AI opinion pieces ()
UHC reducing prior auths by 30% | Affordability crisis analysis | Hospital at home’s silo | ‘Maggot therapy’ lawsuit ()
Hospital food fight | AHA’s AI, telehealth adoption initiative | UPMC buys Trinity Health System | Fatherhood and longevity ()
DOJ’s healthcare Strike Force | Atrium to expand with $2B deal | Cybersecurity arms race | Ambient AI winning big with nurses ()
Weekly Update: FDA recall after 29 serious injuries | Best places for nurses to work | Virtual primary care | AI 'game over' ()
Tips for AI governance | FDA restricts GLP-1 compounding | Class I recall after 29 injuries | Healthcare’s biggest challenges ()