Updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) instructs physicians to test pregnant women for Zika up to 14 days after symptoms begin. It also adds new recommendations based on the first documented female-to-male transmission of the virus.

Several healthcare providers and physicians in Florida are planning on going to trial with integrated system HealthFirst, seeking more than $360 million in damages for alleged antitrust violations.

An analysis of CMS data by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said hospitals spent less on charity care and unrecoverable debt once the Affordable Care Act was implemented.

A new draft guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeks to clarify how Unique Device Identifiers (UDIs) are included on medical devices.

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has reached a settlement of $2.75 million with the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson concerning the matter of a missing laptop.

Medicare patients who are trying to pick a provider will soon have a more straight-forward, visual way to compare nearly 4,000 hospitals. CMS will assign each hospital an overall rating of between one to five stars, the distribution of which it announced in a statement July 21. 

Here’s a roundup of state healthcare news, including complaints over slow payments in Iowa’s privately managed Medicaid program and California overhauling its cancer database.

The American Medical Association and the American College of Radiology are among the groups pushing members of Congress to roll back laws requiring groups to disclose financial ties to doctors in the federal government’s OpenPayments database.