Right now U.S. healthcare has almost everything it needs to eliminate one awful affliction—and then to adapt the resulting victory for going after many others. 

The ruling is a blow to insurance companies that were previously allowed to include “ghost rates” in reimbursement benchmarks. The court ruled that policy, put in place by HHS and other agencies, is unlawful.

The war on Alzheimer’s disease has been underway for so long that people can’t help but think it may be unwinnable. Now comes a fresh set of reasons to think again and hope anew. 

Tracking 12,519 cardiology patients taking semaglutide found a 58% lower risk of all-cause mortality.

If you could help break the silence around the nation’s maternal mortality crisis for something like 1 cent per message, wouldn’t you make the spend? If so, know that a growing number of hospitals has already laid the groundwork. 

A youth mental-health program, national in scale, has been shown to save a country’s public health system $4,000 a year per patient. And while it’s at it, the program helps young people overcome or better manage serious behavioral issues. 

The lawsuit touches on the common complaint of third-party tracking code being used on websites that in some cases captures sensitive information in patient portals and search forms. UCHealth denies the allegations.

AnMed, a nonprofit health system, suffered a data breach in late July that has left some of its systems still offline. Now, an infamous hacker group is claiming credit for the attack in an unusual way. 

The nonprofit Intermountain Health would take full ownership of Idaho Falls Community Hospital, and expand its minority share in physician-owned Mountain View Hospital, if the deal with Surgery Partners goes through.

The hospital-at-home model is known to please patients, clinicians and administrators alike. Why is it stuck in a holding pattern rather than flying high? 

Radiologist Barry Jeffries, MD, allegedly improperly placed a suprapubic catheter outside of the patient's bladder, worsening his chyle leak. 

Bill Shields, who spent a 15 years with Medtronic’s structural heart division, will now be helping lead a startup focused on tricuspid valve treatments.