March 2026

Lawsuit dropped against squatter patient who refused to leave hospital room for 5 months ()
UnitedHealthcare launches generative AI ‘companion’ for patient care coordination ()
Report: GOP looking to cut healthcare to offset $200B Iran war spending ()
Physicians who feel they ‘fit in’ experience less burnout—and entertain fewer thoughts of quitting or cutting back ()
EFF sues CMS over deployment of Medicare prior authorization AI ()
DOJ accuses New York health system of engaging in anticompetitive business practices ()
Patient injected with acid instead of saline earns undisclosed settlement ()
Activist investors sue UnitedHealth to force annual reporting on patient care access ()
Trump DOJ launches probe into three medical schools over possible race-based admissions ()
Moral distress in physicians: New study measures prevalence, offers interventions ()
Ransomware attack on UMMC causes 20% drop in revenue due to delayed patient care ()
Novartis sued for allegedly leaking data on breast cancer patient to Google, Contentsquare ()
More than 80% of clinicians have had to correct AI-supplied misinformation during patient visits: New patient + provider survey ()
CMS leaves the ’80s behind with shift away from snail mail correspondence, fax machines ()
Drugmaker’s stock tumbles 20% after FDA issues formal warning to executives ()
6 things Medicaid stakeholders can remind the world to always do with healthcare AI ()
What 1 state can teach the other 49 about regulating healthcare AI ()
4 must-haves for health execs deploying ambient AI scribes at scale ()
Foreign national accused of operating fake company that billed Medicare for $90M—and now he’s on the run ()
Healthcare educators: Want to stabilize nurse staffing for years to come? Stand up for the Nurse Faculty Loan Program ()
FTC homes in on healthcare ()
Former ACA Marketplace enrollee: ‘This is ridiculous—$1,200 and an $8,000 deductible for a healthy person. Really?’ ()
New York man pleads guilty to cyberstalking family of murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO ()
Healthcare price transparency startup earns $40M in seed funding, bringing the total to $95M ()
Consolidation, competition, consumer costs: Healthcare econ experts break it all down, make it make sense ()
US doctors scoot toward 100% AI adoption ()
Sutter Health to scoop up Allina Health, form new $26B nonprofit health system ()
FDA issues emergency alert on surgical stapler reloads after 1 death, 4 injuries ()
MGMA outlines path and pitfalls in CMS 2030 value-based care push ()
Data allegedly from UMMC priced at $800K, posted on dark web ()
ACIP meeting postponed after judge pauses RFK’s new vaccine recommendations ()
Stolen data complaint against Geisinger Health, Nuance Communications settled for $5M ()
Telehealth company admits to sharing medical records with law firms as Epic’s lawsuit heats up ()
Squatter patient refuses to leave hospital room five months after discharge, lawsuit claims ()
Microsoft launches new version of Copilot AI that draws from medical records to answer questions ()
America’s Physician Groups COO dies in scuba diving accident ()
Data breach on care management company impacts 5K patients at NYC Health ()
FDA merges all adverse event reporting systems into new AEMS platform ()
Medical device manufacturer hit by cyberattack, possibly from Iranian-backed hackers ()
Medicare Advantage fraud allegations against Aetna settled for nearly $118M ()
FDA issues emergency alert after reports of 5 serious injuries connected to exploding cryoprobes ()
TriZetto confirms year-long hack of its network exposed records on 3.4M people ()
MGMA outlines healthcare policy progress in Congress for 2026 ()
$15M in medical device and cancer testing fraud earns chiropractor 43 months in prison ()
Court rules Leapfrog hospital safety grades ‘deceptive,’ orders removal of Tenet ratings ()
FTC seeks more time to settle insulin pricing lawsuit with remaining PBM defendants ()
Black surgery technician reassigned over race settles discrimination lawsuit out of court ()
Blood filtration company fined $5.7M, executive charged, for covering up patient deaths ()
Two drug suppliers plead guilty in $50M ‘straw purchase’ resale scheme ()
CVS Health taps Google Cloud for new AI patient engagement platform ()
Nonprofit health system, Nuance Communications agree to $5M settlement after data theft ()
4 points about healthcare AI that notable experts are emphasizing in the public square ()
Financial aid nonprofits merge to do more for patients feeling pinched by medical bills on top of overall inflation ()
Clover Health becomes first healthcare payer to meet CMS interoperability standard ()
Cyberattack on healthcare RCM vendor may have impacted 140K patients ()
HHS tells employees to abandon Claude AI, as Trump feuds with developer Anthropic ()
Do older patients shy away from mHealth apps—or do clinicians too often assume they will? ()
UMMC reopens clinics shut down by ransomware attack as recovery progresses ()
Labcorp expands use of digital pathology with renewed PathAI partnership ()
Post-COVID, nurses still ‘lack confidence in management to act in the best interest of patients’ ()