St. Louis-based Ascension said June 17 that it has entered an agreement to acquire AmSurg, an ASC operator with more than 250 facilities across 34 states. The move will significantly expand the ...

A Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center team has performed a fully robotic heart transplant. The procedure marks the first fully robotic heart transplant to be performed on an adult patient ...

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has signed a new three-year agreement with Latent Health to expand the use of AI tools that streamline medication prior authorizations across its network. The ...

A physician from Porter Ranch, Calif., was sentenced to 54 months in prison for falsifying home health certifications and fraudulently billing Medicare. What happened?

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services has rolled out an AI agent to call patients and check in on patients after they’re discharged from the hospital. The 29-hospital system originally ...

Atul Butte, MD, PhD, who served as chief data scientist of Oakland-based University of California, died June 13 at the age of 55. He was also the inaugural director of the San Francisco-based UCSF ...

Charleston, S.C.-based MUSC Health is expanding agentic AI to boost scheduling, voice notifications and revenue cycle functions. The 16-hospital system has been working with healthcare AI company ...

A coalition of universities, medical centers and other research institutions have pitched proposals on new funding models for how the federal government covers indirect costs that support research ...

Health is facing a lawsuit after a cybersecurity incident in May disrupted systems across the organization, WDTN reported June 16. Here are five things to know: ...

Senate Republicans are proposing deeper and broader cuts to Medicaid than their counterparts in the House — heightening concerns among hospital leaders who were already warning of significant risks to ...

HealthCare and the hybrid care company OnMed have opened a virtual care station at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn. The walk-in telehealth kiosk, sponsored by Hartford HealthCare, ...

Orthopedic and musculoskeletal (MSK) care leaders are facing a mounting challenge: how to grow sustainably amid flat reimbursement, workforce shortages, and increased patient demand. The answer isn’t ...