Healthcare Dealmakers—$6B NJ hospital merger nixed, Blue Cross KC affiliating with Highmark and more

A hearing on healthcare prices that convened the heads of HCA Healthcare, CommonSpirit Health and other systems had plenty of finger pointing and at least one clear concession on a policy issue long opposed by the hospital lobby.

The program is part of NAM’s broader Change Maker campaign, which works to advance the national plan’s priority areas. About 520 organizations have become members since the campaign launched in October 2023.

Nearly 40% of claims from leading medical liability insurers reflected year-to-year premium increases in 2025, even as the portion of physicians who have faced a lawsuit in the past year has stayed "relatively low," the American Medical…

A sharp end to the flu season and disruptive winter storms dragged the country's largest for-profit health system in January. Executives said there's already signs of recovery since the stumble and pointed to favorable activity among…

Healthcare organizations have a responsibility to prepare their people and their systems for the analog reality that a cyberattack, an outage or a cascading infrastructure failure can impose at any moment, writes ECRI President and CEO…

Healthcare stakeholders have registered mixed reactions to both the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ final rule laying out the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 and the Office of the National Coordinator for…

Inaccurate diagnoses impact approximately 1 in 20 adults in the United States--or as many as 12 million people each year. Even more troubling, a third of these diagnostic errors can lead to disability and even death. That’s why Johns…

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs expects to be able to roll out new app software nationwide to enable online appointment scheduling beginning this January. Patients initially will be able to set up primary-care appointments via an…