Marty Makary has resigned as the head of the Food and Drug Administration, ending what’s been an unusually tumultuous run steering the U.S.’s top health regulator. President Trump confirmed Makary’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Specialty drugs are expensive prescription medicines for complex and chronic conditions that are only dispensed through specialized pharmacies like Shields. Less than 5% of the U.S. population takes ...