CMS officially began paying for street medicine services at the national level in 2023. This year finds the street-med model making much headway—and many headlines. 

As part of the agreement, Xiang Yuan, MD, a Pennsylvania plastic surgeon, does not admit to violating the Controlled Substances Act. He will, however, have to submit to additional monitoring and reporting requirements. 

The payer group said the new Lifestyle Spending Account will pay for the things not currently covered by other flexible spending accounts, such as consumer products to monitor nutrition and manage diabetes. The full list of options is presented in a new webstore.

Patients increasingly wait for—or never receive—drug treatments deemed appropriate and timely by their doctors. 

The esteemed healthcare system is being sued by a former research director who says it retaliated against her for crying foul over alleged serious improprieties involving AI.

The North Carolina-based health system was allegedly using third-party tracking code on its website that sent sensitive patient data back to tech companies like Facebook, where it was used for advertising. Atrium does not admit to wrongdoing.

As part of the deal, the sale of Omnicare to GenieRx must be finalized. The CVS-owned pharmacy group was found in a civil trial to have violated federal law by overbilling Medicare for prescriptions from 2010 to 2018.

The concept of the healthcare workplace champion may be ripe for developing and expanding in this time of protracted workforce shortages. Researchers make the case in a new study, suggesting star performers can help overstretched provider organizations build resilience against demoralization in their ranks. 

The lawsuit dates back to 2019 but has been stuck in the court process for years. In the end, the health plan will pay Pomona Valley Hospital for emergency care delivered to patients at an out-of-network rate—though the facility didn’t get all of what it was seeking. 

State Attorney General James Uthmeier is forcing the company to hand over thousands of documents related to its pharmacy contracts and reimbursement policies to see if the retail giant is abusing its position in the market as both a pharmacy benefit manager and a retail chain of drug stores. 

A Washington woman says she underwent a routine myelogram last year to assess the functioning of her intrathecal baclofen pump, but she has suffered health problems since then. 

Data on the potential relationship between cannabis use and CVD remain mixed. For now, however, there is enough evidence available that heart patients should be careful.