December 2025

New healthcare private equity reporting requirements set to go into effect ()
Hospital lost patient’s skull, offered $25 gas card as recompense, lawsuit claims ()
Replaceable doctors, online-only doctors, Dr. Thomas Keane & more healthcare AI news in brief ()
Grand jury indicts telehealth provider in alleged $100M Adderall distribution scheme ()
Mayo Clinic sued after man who received high-risk donor heart dies ()
High-level briefing: Regional merger scrapped | Provider chain denied | Holiday inspiration appreciated | more ()
Immersing new docs in all things AI | Forecasting without hyping healthcare AI | And more AI doings of note ()
New York invests over $309M in statewide health projects, including $33M for Epic integration ()
‘President of common sense’: Trump reschedules marijuana, improving patient access ()
In brief: Dems and GOPers both wrong about healthcare | Physician trainees literally going hungry | Uplifting points of 2025 light ()
House GOP slaps down ACA subsidies as ‘Lower Health Care Premiums Act’ moves to Senate ()
Morgue manager at Harvard Medical School gets 8 years for selling the deceased ()
Hospitals providing organs to wealthy international patients, leaving Americans waiting ()
AI news & views of note: What patients think of AI scribes, 5 must-have principles for enterprise-wide adoption, more ()
Cyberattack on member-owned healthcare payer ends in $3.5M settlement ()
Cencora to buy nationwide oncology network in $5B deal ()
California leads coalition of 20 states suing Trump over $100K H-1B visa policy ()
Two pediatricians sue nonprofit health system for wrongful termination after alleged patient safety incidents ()
When healthcare met politics with time running out: 3 new developments ()
Connecticut hospital hit with $32M judgment after cow-based formula linked to infant’s death ()
FDA to add ‘black box’ warning to COVID vaccines, report says ()
Noteworthy AI news: Prez Trump vs. state regulators, HHS’s AI strategy 1 week out, imperfect AI, more ()
Lawsuit claims clinic used AI to record patient conversations without consent ()
News gems: Hospital price caps, costly drinking water, child-unready hospitals, more ()
CDC: Pediatric COVID vaccines reduce ER trips by 76% ()
Texas sues Epic for allegedly ‘gatekeeping’ children’s medical records ()
Noteworthy AI news: Ambient AI class action, AI-implicated patient harms, AI-conflicted psychologists, more ()
Study finds big hospitals overpaid, rural facilities overlooked in Change Healthcare relief ()
CMS data shows 5.8M Americans enrolled in ACA coverage in November—more than last year ()
How US healthcare can win over—or win back—the American people ()
In brief: Hospitals v. pharmacies in court, lights on at all-electric hospital, money-minded nonprofits, more ()
Kerfuffle continues over pending halt of hep B vaccine for babies ()
AI news & views in brief: AI as healthcare cure-all, AI-experienced med students, more ()
HHS out with bold AI strategy to ‘unleash a new era of wellbeing for a healthier America’ ()
Mark Cuban, Humana CEO announce drug pricing partnership during Forbes panel ()
Neuralink users reveal power to move robotic arms, play video games with their minds ()
Kaiser Permanente agrees to $46M settlement over data incident affecting 13.4M people ()
Community Health Systems sells ambulatory diagnostics segment to Labcorp for $194M ()
Plan to extend ACA tax credits finds bipartisan support in the House ()
Drug discounts for safety-net hospitals up in the air and into the courts ()
FDA issues warning about Olympus ligating devices after 113 injuries ()
Patient communication AI company receives $65M in funding from private equity ()
AI news & views in brief: State regulation ban or none, AI in healthcare advertising, more ()
CVS agrees to pay $38M to resolve insulin over-distribution allegations, DOJ says ()
Hospital pays out $4.2M to settle lawsuit involving ‘violent and uncontrollable’ patient ()
Nurses back on the march against AI in healthcare ()
Damaged Alaris infusion pumps linked to two serious injuries as FDA updates safety instructions ()
Newly revealed audio and video show moments leading up to the arrest of Luigi Mangione ()