Premiums for ACA plans to grow 7% next year: KFF
Insurers cited workforce shortages, hospital consolidation and growing demand for pricey GLP-1 drugs as reasons driving the premium increases for 2025.
Experts fear patient harm from FDA’s lab developed test rule
Decreased access to diagnostic tests, worsening patient care and practice closures are among the concerns the AMA and others have raised as the regulation takes effect.
Appeals court hands providers latest win in No Surprises litigation
The 5th Circuit Court’s decision vacates instructions that arbiters should first consider the qualifying payment amount in deciding payments over contested out-of-network bills. Providers argued that unfairly advantaged insurers.
Tenet to sell majority stake in 5 Alabama hospitals for $910M
The health system has made a series of hospital divestitures this year as it seeks to pay down debt and refocus its portfolio on ambulatory surgery centers.
Southern blood center recovering from ransomware attack
OneBlood, which serves hundreds of hospitals in the southeastern U.S., had to implement manual methods for processing blood after the cyberattack, which reduced its capacity.
Steward will lay off more than 1,200 workers in Massachusetts
The bankrupt health system will lay off workers at the end of the month as it prepares to close two hospitals in the state, according to notices filed with regulators last week.
Walgreens further reduces stake in Cencora for $1.1B
The struggling drugstore chain has been chipping away at its stake in Cencora, formerly known as AmerisourceBergen, since last summer.
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Medicare finalizes higher 2.9% inpatient payment rate for 2025
Hospitals still weren’t happy with the final rule despite the bump from the CMS’ proposed rates, citing cuts to long-term and disproportionate share facilities.