Pricing transparency report cards for 2024 are out, and the grades for U.S. hospitals have dipped for the first time since the federal government reset the standards in 2021.

As healthcare AI opens new avenues to improve care quality without unduly increasing operational costs, the technology also expands potential exposure to civil and criminal liabilities. And that’s not only for providers but also payers and suppliers.

In the absence of federal laws to address violence against healthcare workers, most state legislatures have taken up the cause on their own.

The Department of Justice spent a substantial amount of time and energy targeting healthcare fraud in 2023, according to a new 80-page report. Some of the year's biggest settlements involved cardiac surgery and cardiac imaging. 

The American Medical Association lays out eight in-demand AI use cases for which the organization says it has heard physicians “express particular enthusiasm.”

Maternity care is in danger of vanishing from rural communities across the U.S., and two addressable if not reversible trends largely account for the peril. 

When asked to depict people by various descriptors, the image generator delivered lots of results that were unintentionally hilarious for their wild inaccuracy.

Patient advocates state the updated governance would not only integrate coverage for underserved populations but also clamp down on the “games” that Medicare Advantage plans have been known to “play” with Medicaid patients.