The prosecution has until Oct. 9 to respond to the defense's motion to dismiss. Attorneys representing Luigi Mangione, the man who confessed in federal court to killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, argue that a second trial would violate their client’s civil rights.

While LifeStance Health maintains it did not knowingly do anything wrong and is committed to the privacy of its patients, it has agreed to make sure that no third-party tracking technologies are running on its website.

The agency is looking into claims that the EHR vendor is blocking data access to its over 300 million patient records. If true, such actions would violate federal regulations. 

Pennsylvania-based UHS expands into the virtual behavioral health space with the acquisition, though Talkspace will keep its branding and current CEO. 

The lawsuit was filed by two major institutional investors who blame company leadership for the 2024 breach on Change Healthcare and accuse executives of facilitating alleged Medicare billing fraud. 

A U.S. District Court judge ruled that the states were unable to show they would be irreparably harmed by complying with the policy, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is covering 90% of the associated costs.

With the change, premiums are expected to rise. However, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services confirmed they cannot inflate by more than 6%, as capped by the Inflation Reduction Act. 

Mosaic Clinical Technologies believes diagnostic imaging vision-language models represent an “important and promising” advancement in medicine, but one that requires greater regulatory scrutiny. 
 

"If we want to prevent plaque from forming, we need to understand those earliest changes—not just what happens after inflammation has already taken hold," one researcher explained.