Democrats in the U.S. Senate attempted to use the Congressional Review Act to force the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to halt a program that uses artificial intelligence to approve or deny claims for medical care submitted to traditional Medicare. The measure failed in a 46-50 vote.

All six counts of the company’s complaint were dismissed. The lawsuit stems from a May 2025 report from the outlet, where it was alleged the insurer paid incentive payments to nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers.

In emergency settings, female physicians order more tests and admit more patients than their male peers. The difference is not pronounced, but its presence suggests women physicians may have a greater tendency to consider peripheral assessment factors. 

The agency announced its appeal of a court ruling it lost to Clover Health, which resulted in the agency recalculating the grades it gave to the payer’s Medicare Part C plans. Other insurers are now asking for the same redo, spurring CMS to appeal the initial ruling.

Users of the popular online betting marketplace can now wager on specific FDA regulatory scenarios, including when Eli Lilly’s new weight loss drug will be approved, or when camizestrant will be given the greenlight to treat breast cancer.

Like the emergency physicians they work alongside, ER nurses experience moral distress in substantial numbers and multifaceted ways, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing.

The unusual defendants were swept up as part of a larger investigation into healthcare fraud in the Minnesota housing services program. An alleged third co-conspirator has pleaded not guilty and will take her chances at a jury trial.

Payments to lobbyists from healthcare providers fell 13% over a 10-year period ending in 2024. Yet lobbyist spending by one specialty—mental healthcare—rose by nearly 30%. What explains the against-the-current cash flow?