The COVID crisis is affecting U.S. healthcare even at the level of high finance, suppressing merger and acquisition activity in the provider sector by almost 20% in 2020’s second quarter versus its first.

CEOs with the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association underscored the pandemic’s outsized impact on people of color in a letter to lawmakers sent Friday. 

One billion of the total will go toward specialty rural hospitals, urban hospitals with certain rural Medicare designations and providers in small metropolitan areas, the administration announced recently.

Leaders of the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians and American College of Physicians all cautioned against the president's plan.

An influential writer in the Green Mountain State who’s lived there since the 1940s is calling for the culling of its hospital network.

The COVID crisis has significantly increased the volume of data healthcare providers are rushing into the cloud. This “smash and grab” behavior is largely explained by the spike in healthcare workers doing their jobs remotely.

The American Heart Association noted that the Affordable Care Act has provided “invaluable patient protections for millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions.”

A challenge to a Trump administration rule that requires hospitals to post their prices for services online has been defeated after a U.S. judge granted a summary judgment to HHS.