Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has advanced legislation that would seek to bar pharmacy benefit managers from also owning pharmacies, claiming that PBMs are taking advantage of lax regulations. According to Sanders, PBMs take advantage of this lax environment to inflate drug prices and cut off access to critical medications.
Despite elevated medical costs, Elevance Health managed to perform more or less in line with expectations in the first quarter, bringing in $2.2 billion in profit, a slight decrease from the $2.25 billion in profit reported in Q1 2024. Revenue was up year-over-year, hitting $48.9 billion in Q1, a 15% jump as compared to $42.6 […]
Called “Advancing AI Driven Digital Health Transformation in the Middle East,” the event is designed to highlight the momentum in the region that’s becoming a test bed for scalable, responsible AI solutions, says Dr. Tamara Sunbul, chair of HIMSS Middle East Community and a digital health transformation and innovation strategic advisor.
Prospect Medical Holdings has filed a motion to close Crozer Health and all of the outpatient facilities licensed with the Pennsylvania hospital system, according to a bankruptcy update from Delaware County Pennsylvania.
Swift action was needed after the attack to ensure hospitals got paid and now providers are rethinking their strategy for a more diversified approach, says Karly Rowe, interim president of Inovalon’s provider business unit.
The American Nurses Association has expressed concerns over a leaked draft of the Trump administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026, saying cuts to federal nursing research and workforce development would hamper the national healthcare system’s ability to improve and adapt to emerging evidence.
Ensure that the data is relevant and timely and make sure the insights reach people at the right time, says Anika Gardenhire, RN, chief digital and transformation officer at Ardent Health.
The Supreme Court today is hearing arguments in a case revolving around the constitutionality of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which determines which preventive services must be covered by the Affordable Care Act at no cost to the patient.
Twenty-six rural hospitals have launched the Ohio High Value Network for a clinically integrated system covering 2.5 million patients. The network will share clinical and business initiatives, operations and best practices. It will collaborate to control contracting costs, OHVN said. It is expected to drive care coordination and reduce administrative burden.
American College of Clinical Engineering and HIMSS collaborated on integrated and secure technology to send the correct information to the medical record, says HIMSS Changemaker Awardee Ilir Kullolli, VP & COO for digital information solutions at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.