Home healthcare company LHC Group is being acquired by UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest health insurance providers, for a whopping $5.4 billion.

Greenberg Advisors recently released its 2021 Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Update, which describes investment and M&A activity in the revenue cycle management (RCM) and healthcare IT (HCIT) sectors. 

In a new video, Evans Pap­pas, MD, and Sujith Kalathiveetil, MD, both of Duly Health and Care in suburban Chicago, explain the shift toward office-based cardiac CT evaluations and the role of FFR-CT. 

Three kidney care providers –– Fresenius Health Partners, Cricket Health and InterWell Health –– have entered into a binding agreement to merge.

The bills update the ages at which insurance carriers are required to cover screening mammograms and add language that includes tomosynthesis in the definition of mammographic screening.

Telecardiology saw a major boost during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many health systems now want to keep it as a permanent treatment option. 

A $411 million class action lawsuit against Sutter Health has been dismissed in a jury trial, giving the not-for-profit California health system a major win.

A significant number of cardiologists are mistreated—often in more ways than one—after they tell their employer they are pregnant.