The U.S. spent 7.2% more on healthcare in 2024. Most of the acceleration was because of greater use and intensity of medical goods and services, not growth in healthcare prices, CMS actuaries said.
Workers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health affected by the layoffs last spring received emails yesterday that their reduction-in-force notices have been revoked. Hundreds of NIOSH employees had been let go.
Epic alleges Health Gorilla and its clients retrieved nearly 300,000 patient records for financial gain. Health Gorilla argues the EHR vendor is attempting to stop the free flow of health data.
A new report paints a picture of a sector with limited confidence in its defensive capabilities.
While health systems will continue their AI rollout, use of the technology could evolve amid intensifying competition from EHRs, fragmented regulations and growing M&A opportunities.
Some 22.8 million people have signed up for Affordable Care Act plans through early January, slower than last year’s pace but more robust than some experts predicted. Still, the CMS data paints an incomplete picture of the market.
Startups raised $14.2 billion last year, the highest funding total since 2022. Health AI companies collected 54% of total funding, according to Rock Health.
Staffers for Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, dove into 50,000 pages of documentation from UnitedHealth for the new report, which accuses the company of maintaining a workforce dedicated to upcoding.
The physician lobby surveyed 64 medical societies and found that most of them were worried about nurses, physician assistants and other practitioners getting more freedom to provide care this year.
The report comes as the Trump administration prioritizes deregulating artificial intelligence.