Cardinal Health has entered into definitive agreements to acquire two companies as the medical supply firm and drug distributor expands in specialty and home healthcare. The company will acquire a 71% ...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the struggles of front-line healthcare workers including long-standing issues like staffing shortages and burnout. Hospitals still struggle with staffing, with over ...

Kaiser Permanente’s historic labor management partnership is on shaky ground this week as the window of opportunity narrows to negotiate a new contract for over 75,000 healthcare workers represented ...

Hospitals will no longer be off limits for immigration enforcement operations under a directive announced by the new Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday. The directive ...

Challenges await the healthcare industry, which is still recovering nearly four years after the COVID-19 pandemic began. Insurers and hospitals face rising costs while digital health companies ...

HCA Healthcare, Tenet Healthcare, Universal Health Services and Community Health Systems all posted financial results that beat Wall Street expectations for the first quarter of 2025. Still, the ...

The Washington-based health system is launching an Office of Transformation to oversee the deployment of technology, including artificial intelligence, across the organization. Wexler said the name of ...

A group of independent pharmacies is suing Cigna-owned Express Scripts for allegedly colluding with rival pharmacy benefit manager Prime Therapeutics. The proposed class action lawsuit filed in ...

Humana simplified its corporate structure into two businesses last year, splitting its insurance benefits segment and health services arm CenterWell. Along with offering specialty and retail pharmacy, ...

Prior authorization requires providers to submit paperwork to insurers certifying that treatments are medically necessary prior to performing them. Insurers argue that prior authorization curbs ...

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health last week reported $184 million in operating income for the first half of 2023, a 35% decrease from the prior-year period when the health system posted an ...

Steward entered its Chapter 11 restructuring process last month with $75 million in DIP financing from its landlord, Medical Properties Trust. However, when MPT declined to provide further funds ...