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OhioHealth has agreed to void problematic contracts with insurers and not seek such terms moving forward, the Justice Department said. The Ohio nonprofit continues to deny all wrongdoing.
Read full article →OhioHealth reached an agreement with the Department of Justice and the Ohio Attorney General to settle a lawsuit over antitrust allegations.
Read full article →A pair of new reports from the Office of Inspector General raise concerns about "ghost networks" for maternal services in Medicaid.
Read full article →The companies say the partnership “responds to a growing need” for “more connected health experiences” for users.
Read full article →The Justice Department is suing the New York State Department of Health, the state’s Medicaid director and a company operating a $10 billion home health program for the state. In the suit, filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York, the DOJ accused Public Partnerships LLC (PPL) of making false or misleading statements about its ability to take over and run the state’s Consumer Directed...
Read full article →The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and four states on Wednesday sued the leading medical organization focused on transgender health for allegedly making false and unsubstantiated claims to parents in order to sell pediatric medical transition services. The FTC’s lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is the latest Trump administration effort to target institutions connected to gender-affirming treatment for...
Read full article →Combined upper and lower GI endoscopy is becoming standard practice across many US healthcare settings, but the quality infrastructure for upper GI has not kept pace with the procedures now being performed on it. The post Combined GI Procedures Are Becoming Routine – AI Can Help Address the Gap in Upper GI Quality Standards appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →The healthcare organizations getting this right are not defined by how much they’ve automated. They are defined by how deliberately they’ve protected the human touchpoints that drive trust, engagement, and outcomes. The post The Human Behind the Machine: Why Healthcare Must Resist the Rush To Automate appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →As air transportation for organs becomes more common, both in response to tech advancements and changing federal guidelines, the industry needs tools that synchronize communication between dispersed teams and can keep pace with air transport. The post Leveraging Technology to Navigate the New Era of Continuous Organ Distribution appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →UniQure will submit Huntington's therapy for approval, Eli Lilly buys 4E Therapeutics, and more biotech news
Read full article →A cyber extortion group claimed to have stolen more than a terabyte of data from Novo Nordisk and said it is exploring selling some of the data
Read full article →In this edition of AI Prognosis, Brittany Trang takes a close look at ambient scribe developer Abridge's claim about being patient-centered.
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