Hours after the federal government filed an antitrust lawsuit against Humana’s proposed sale to Aetna, Humana announced it wouldn’t offer plans on Affordable Care Act exchanges in several states 2017.

In what the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) calls its largest single criminal healthcare fraud case, three people have been arrested and charged with running a $1 billion Medicare fraud and money laundering scheme involving multiple providers based in and around Miami.

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.

The antitrust lawsuits against Aetna’s acquisition of Humana and Anthem’s takeover of Cigna drew support from the American Medical Association (AMA) and American Hospital Association (AHA), while the largest health insurer trade group argued the deals would be beneficial to consumers. 

Unionized nurses at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital have ratified a new three-year labor contract, avoiding what would have been the largest nurses strike in Massachusetts history.

A new report from HHS’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found 29 percent of Medicare beneficiaries in rehabilitation hospitals reported experiencing some form of harm during their stays.

Program integrity efforts within Medicare and Medicaid resulted in about $42 billion in savings in fiscal years 2013 and 2014, according to a new report released by CMS.

The healthcare industry is never far from the headlines—and, at least recently, it has not for the best reasons. Hackers are stealing patient data, costs are increasing and the political landscape is always shifting.