Hydroxychloroquine has emerged as a controversial treatment option for COVID-19 but Henry Ford found it led to lower death rates.

Live updates from Modern Healthcare on the coronavirus outbreak and how COVID-19 is affecting the healthcare industry.

If the protests had driven an explosion in cases, experts say, the jumps would have started to become apparent within two weeks—and perhaps as early as five days. But that didn't happen in many cities with the largest protests.

Much as Sputnik I transformed American science—ultimately leading to the first human steps on the moon—medicine is ready for its own moon landing. Let us make this the positive legacy of the current tragedy.

Federal jobs data from June show the healthcare industry added 15% more jobs than in May, indicating providers' recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is growing.

A federal district judge ruled that HHS improperly denied Medicare payments to Kindred Healthcare for care provided to dual-eligibles. The agency will have to reevaluate its decision.

New York-Presbyterian's Brooklyn Methodist Hospital plans to close 25 of its psychiatric beds indefinitely, with the other half unavailable for the next 12 to 18 months.

Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. will pay $678 million to the U.S. government and various states to settle a lawsuit over a sham speaker program that distributed cash, expensive dinners and other treats to induce doctors to prescribe its products.

Healthcare providers' eligibility for COVID-19 relief grants won't be limited to costs and lost revenue they incurred during the HHS-designated public health emergency.

More than 400 hospitals have signed on to a Premier pilot project that will track COVID-19 symptoms reported in doctor's notes to improve their pandemic surveillance.

As the federal government rolls out new vertical merger guidelines, experts say they won't prevent anticompetitive mergers in healthcare. There is little proof these mergers boost competition.

A spate of healthcare bankruptcies is expected this fall as small hospitals suffer through the COVID-19 crunch. That may lure opportunistic buyers who test the limits of maximizing reimbursement.

Venture capital funds have a renewed interest in startups focused on digital health and related technologies during the pandemic. Insiders predict this could be an unusually active summer for healthcare VC funding.

The nation's top health officials are banking on a new approach to dramatically boost U.S. screening for the coronavirus: combining test samples in batches instead of running them one by one.

Intermountain Healthcare, the Premier healthcare alliance and four healthcare trade groups have banded together to push back on Congress' decadeslong ban on developing a national patient identifier.

Centene Corp., a growing Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplace insurer, said it will begin building a new campus in August, as part of a $1 billion investment in the Charlotte community.

Defective items make up the bulk of the personal protective equipment recently sent by the federal government to New Hampshire nursing homes struggling with the coronavirus pandemic, according to the head of an industry group who called the shipments "profoundly insulting."