Risant Health will make available a minimum of $1 billion in capital to Cone Health over the next five years to support investments in facilities, health equity and other capital projects, according to a financial filing by Kaiser Permanente.

Stanford Health Care, based out of Palo Alto, California, has tapped Health and Human Services official Dr. Nazleen Bharmal to serve as its first chief health equity officer. Bharmal, who begins her new role effective this month, will also join the Department of Medicine as a clinical associate professor in the Division of Primary Care […]

The risk is a cyberattacker using AI to process a volume of data and finding a corner of the environment we didn’t know about, says Dave Heaney, CISO at Mass General Brigham.  

Steward Health Care CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre is refusing to appear before a Senate Committee next week, despite being issued a subpoena to answer questions about the health system’s bankruptcy. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) issued a subpoena in July for de la Torre to appear on September […]

Speaking to a lack of transparency in pharmaceutical pricing, a new Health Affairs study has found that, over time, out-of-pocket drug prices for consumers have grown more quickly than those encountered by insurers.

After months of negotiations, a contract dispute between UnitedHealthcare and HCA Healthcare has been resolved, with the two parties coming to an agreement hours before a September 1 deadline that would have interrupted network coverage in Texas, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Colorado.

St. Peter’s Health, based out of Helena, Montana, will pay about $10.8 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it fraudulently submitted claims to federal healthcare programs for services performed by an oncology doctor.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute president and CEO Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher has announced she will step down on October 1 and assume the title of president emerita. Dr. Benjamin Levine Ebert, chair of the Department of Medical Oncology, will serve as the next president and CEO of Dana-Farber, effective October 1.

Highmark Health pulled in $14.7 billion in revenue, an operating gain of $307 million, and net income of $417 million during the first six months of this year – performance the company largely attributed to its insurance businesses. Those business units – notably Highmark Health Plans, United Concordia Dental and HM Insurance Group – were […]

Robert Booker, HITRUST’s chief strategy officer, talks about the need to deploy artificial intelligence responsibly in healthcare as a part of risk management, and how his company’s AI Risk Management Assessment helps companies grapple with rapidly evolving technology.