Vermont awards first batch of $195 million in federal rural health funds
Vermont has begun distributing a massive windfall of federal rural health funding, awarding the first 11.7 million dollars of a total 195 million dollar allocation …
Transformational Middleman gift creates new engine to accelerate breakthroughs at Penn Medicine
Penn Medicine is poised to accelerate its pursuit of medical breakthroughs thanks to a transformational gift from Stanley Middleman, the founder and CEO of Freedom …
More Americans Are Losing Health Insurance—And Everyone Will Pay
Dr. Elaine Batchlor, the CEO of MLK Community Hospital in Los Angeles, is watching history repeat itself with a sense of dread. She remembers when …
Americans aren’t divided on health care. Washington is. | Opinion
For years, the prevailing narrative in Washington has been that America is locked in an irreconcilable partisan war over health care. Politicians frequently frame the …
Medicine Needs to Get Serious About AI
For years, the conversation around artificial intelligence in healthcare has centered on the idea of the digital assistant. From patients using chatbots to screen suspicious …
New bill seeks publicly funded health coverage for all Pennsylvanians
State Representative Greg Scott of Montgomery County is pushing for a fundamental shift in how residents access medical services with the introduction of the Pennsylvania …
Former Sunnyvale resident pleads guilty to health care fraud
A former Sunnyvale resident has pleaded guilty to his role in a massive healthcare fraud operation that targeted Medicare Advantage programs for millions of dollars. …
Catch 22: Californians can’t afford health insurance but face fines if they drop it
For many Californians, the promise of affordable healthcare has dissolved into a stressful mathematical puzzle where every solution seems to lead to another problem. Following …
University of Iowa Health Care nixes plans for new $2B inpatient tower
University of Iowa Health Care has abruptly canceled plans to construct a massive new inpatient tower that was projected to cost upwards of 2 billion …
More than 200,000 Texans are waiting for Medicaid approval as enrollment declines
For Vanessa Melendez, a mother in Houston, the wait for Medicaid approval during her third pregnancy was more than just a bureaucratic delay; it was …