Health insurers have been inflating cost estimates for providing prescription-drug benefits to more than 40 million Medicare beneficiaries, allowing them to cash in $9.1 billion in extra payments from 2006 to 2015, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

Amid widespread concerns about hacking threats and privacy, HHS and industry leaders released voluntary cybersecurity practices to help protect healthcare organizations from threats and keep patient information safe.

The AI in healthcare market is expected to grow from $2.1 billion in 2018 to $36.1 billion by 2025, according to a report by Markets and Markets.

A federal judge has intervened in the planned payment cuts to the 340B drug pricing program that enables outpatient facilities to purchase certain drugs at a lower cost.

Three more executives resigned from Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, in the continued fallout from an investigation from the Tampa Bay Times that revealed pediatric mortality rates for heart surgeries tripled over just a few years.

Several Democratic states have filed notice to appeal the recent court ruling that declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, The Hill reported.

The newly-formed Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare will officially launch this month, with its first board meeting set for Jan. 9 in San Francisco.

Johns Hopkins doctors invented a checklist that has saved thousands of lives, but they sometimes fail to follow the principles themselves, according to an investigation by the Tampa Bay Times.