August 2025

Nurse practitioner, nonprofit challenge Missouri’s collaborative practice law ()
Massachusetts settles $12M lawsuit against CVS over alleged drug overpricing ()
Changing course: Healthcare AI systems are leaving clinicians behind ()
FDA announces recall of Integra applicators due to sanitation risk ()
Recent fraud cases suggest ‘fake nursing’ has become a troubling career path ()
Healthcare AI today: Bad diet advice from LLMs, ‘Dawn’ working on cancer vaccine, Generative AI earns $50M, OpenAI’s healthcare push ()
CDC director, chief medical officer ousted as RFK shakes up agency ()
Looming end of Medicare rural pay adjustment raises concerns about doctor shortages ()
Report: DOJ investigating business practices of UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx ()
New $6B Eversana looks to bypass PBMs and lower drug prices ()
Dispute between Johns Hopkins and UnitedHealthcare pushes patients out-of-network ()
Healthcare AI today: $81M acquisition, Illinois says no to AI therapy, AI glucose cleared, more ()
Data policy research: AI hesitancy remains real, and value-based care models are still an uncertainty ()
Court approves $2.8B BCBS class-action settlement; insurer to make changes ()
Ransomware attack on DaVita kidney care clinics exposes 2.7M patients ()
MGMA raises alarm over 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, warns of access crisis ()
Healthcare AI today: 95% fail rate, epic at Epic, AI to the rescue of short staffs, more ()
Johns Hopkins researchers: Time is running out to leverage AI for patients beyond a certain age ()
UnitedHealth forms ‘public responsibility committee’ to improve its reputation ()
Dispute over medical care at Children’s Hospital leads to father being tased at Walmart ()
B. Braun recalls IV solutions over serious patient safety risks ()
CVS Caremark hit with $289M judgment following whistleblower claim ()
Biopharma company confirms ransomware attack as 176 GB data trove is posted ()
Healthcare AI today: Cancer research rethought, Trump/Kennedy healthcare AI, ‘What’s best for the patient?’ ()
NUMC accuses ex-CEO of deleting records, seeks $10M in damages ()
Medical researchers: ‘Doctors must be the leaders in the digital evolution of medicine.’ ()
Epic partners with Microsoft to roll out AI-powered clinical scribe ()
Amazon settles defamation lawsuit brought by Georgia doctor who sought $15M ()
Error with Tandem insulin pumps causes 700 adverse events, 59 injuries ()
Fake nurse—who cared for over 4K patients—was wearing scrubs when arrested at home, police say ()
FDA issues early alert on Baxter infusion pumps after 3 serious injuries ()
Two doctors among those charged in $7M opioid distribution scheme ()
MGMA warns of government overreach in the proposed 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule ()
Healthcare AI today: AI’s odds of curing cancer, why it shouldn’t even try, agentic AI’s legal exposure, more ()
Nurse educator: To secure staff buy-in on AI, apply Gartner’s Hype Cycle ()
Texas sues Eli Lilly for allegedly 'bribing' doctors to prescribe weight-loss drugs ()
VA is down more than 6K clinicians since January, and employees are not happy ()
New York man arrested for threatening family of UnitedHealthcare CEO, hours after his murder ()
10-inch surgical instrument left inside cancer patient’s abdomen, lawsuit claims ()
Anti-government activist fails to discharge $52M judgment owed to St. Luke’s ()
Abortion-access nonprofit sued for wrongful death after alleged dosing incident ()
FDA recalls breathing system filters after multiple injuries ()
Healthcare AI today: Bad health advice, ChatGPT 5 ‘highly reliable’ for healthcare, Colorado punts, more ()
AI-aided marketing is driving medical tourism upward, onward ()
New York prosecutors accused of violating HIPAA in Mangione case ()
Researcher Vinay Prasad returns to FDA after abrupt resignation ()
Medical journal bucks RFK, refuses to retract Danish vaccine study ()
Google, NASA working to deploy AI medical assistant on space missions ()
Alabama medical marijuana lawsuit dismissed due to lack of standing ()
FDA confirms end to IV saline shortage caused by Hurricane Helene ()
Healthcare AI today: AMA drills into Trump plan, Illinois forbids AI talk therapy, Mayo Clinic speeds ahead (again) ()
4 ways clinical AI can complement—rather than compete with—patient-centered care ()
Duke Health partners with analytics firm Trilliant to engage patients ()
Surgeon sued by UnitedHealth over social media post says she’s nearly bankrupt ()
DOJ lifts challenge to Amedisys-UnitedHealth merger as companies agree to divest 164 medical centers ()
What providers should know about patients who post healthcare reviews online ()
It’s official: Breach of Change Healthcare impacted 193M people ()
HHS ends support for mRNA vaccines in favor of ‘novel platforms’ ()
Healthcare AI today: Whom to sue, invite into AI governance and altogether avoid (unless you want a new religion) ()
AI-equipped wearables may have an important future in public health surveillance ()
NIH violated federal law in withholding $8B grant funding, watchdog says ()
Insurance companies deny rare disease drugs to 54% of patients, survey finds ()
Healthcare AI today: Action plan arguments, ways to monetize GenAI in healthcare, more ()
New number-crunching shows Medicare could save itself more than $2.5B a year by just saying ‘No’ to 5 low-value services ()
3 ways AI can give patients an experience worth praising ()
Largest U.S. pharmacist association has major concerns about government labeling it a biased special interest group ()
GE HealthCare reports positive second quarter and minimal tariff impacts ()
Physician compensation in 2025 report released ()
President outlines public-private vision for mass digitizing of health data, reinstates Presidential Fitness Test for youth ()