Mayo Clinic rides admissions gains to higher net revenue in 2025
The Rochester, Minnesota-based nonprofit health system said increases in outpatient, hospital and surgical volumes boosted revenue for the year.
Hospitals urge regulators to halt drugmakers’ expanded 340B data policies
The American Hospital Association argues new policies from Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk requiring providers to submit more claims data on dispensed 340B drugs is onerous and unlawful.
HHS gets serious on information blocking enforcement
Nearly a decade after Congress banned information blocking, the HHS is making progress on cracking down on health IT developers accused of the practice, the national coordinator for health information technology said during a Senate subcommittee hearing.
Optum Rx, Caremark making ‘significant progress’ in settlement talks with FTC
It’s looking increasingly likely that the UnitedHealth and CVS drug middlemen will also make peace with federal regulators, after Cigna agreed to a sweeping settlement in the insulin lawsuit last month.
CVS, Google Cloud partner on healthcare consumer engagement platform
Health100, set to launch this year, will collect patients’ data from across the healthcare ecosystem, help them find care and use AI to provide education and guidance, CVS said.
Mount Sinai, Anthem fail to reach new contract
The New York hospital giant is now out of network with plans offered by the Elevance subsidiary after the two failed to agree on terms.
Amazon launches suite of healthcare AI agents
Amazon Connect Health can help patients schedule appointments as well as assist providers by creating summaries of patients’ medical histories, documenting care and generating diagnosis and billing codes.
CMS innovation center remains focused on mandatory models, officials say
CMMI Director Abe Sutton and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz outlined how the administration aims to get more providers, especially poor-performing ones, into value-based models at a D.C. event on Tuesday.
State Medicaid budgets face $664B cut due to ‘Big Beautiful Bill’: study
Twenty states are projected to experience Medicaid budget reductions of 5% or more from the law’s cuts to the safety-net insurance program, according to the Rand analysis.
Education Department urged to broaden ‘professional’ student definition
Professional students will be able to borrow $100,000 more than other graduate students, but a proposed rule would exclude certain healthcare fields, like advanced nursing and physician associates, from the higher cap.