CMS's new framework sounds like a gentle opt-in. There’s no requirement to meet every standard on day one, just a commitment ...

A new analysis from the American Medical Association (AMA) adds to the growing evidence detailing the lack of competition and high vertical integration in the pharmacy benefit manager market. The ...

Included Health, a navigation and virtual care company, announced Tuesday that it plans to acquire Firefly Health, a primary care and health plan provider. San Francisco-based Included Health provides ...

A BridgeBio Pharma drug developed for dwarfism increased children’s growth rates in a pivotal clinical trial, meeting the study’s main goal and boosting the daily pill’s chances to offer an ...

A few minutes of interaction with a digital tablet and speaking can reveal patterns that once required advanced imaging, ...

This roundup is published monthly. It is meant to highlight some of healthcare’s recent hiring news and is not intended to be comprehensive. If you have news about an executive appointment, ...

Access to sleep medicine is a worldwide problem, with about 80% of people with sleep apnea remaining undiagnosed. Several startups are using AI to try and address this issue — and on Wednesday, one of ...

Roughly 31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and other healthcare professionals are planning to launch an open-ended strike starting on Monday. Their main grievances are chronic understaffing, rising ...

Two obesity drugs are among the six new medications that could get faster FDA review under a new pilot program open to products addressing certain national health priorities. Rare and infectious ...

Shared savings programs are useful for nudging providers’ behavior toward value, but they aren’t a true payment model that can sustain a health system, according to one executive. “Shared savings ...

Done well, NICU UM is so much more than an approval process. It is a clinical credibility engine that — when integrated with ...

From hospice centers to emergency rooms, frontline healthcare workers across the country have been striking this month to protest what they say are unsafe patient care conditions and poor bargaining ...