Option Care Health responded quickly to Optum’s unsolicited bid, stressing the near-term and long-term advantages of its previously announced, all-stock deal with Amedisys.

States such as Arizona, Maryland and Massachusetts are deploying technology solutions to facilitate communications with tens of millions of Medicaid enrollees as states resume eligibility checks.

Highly effective leaders will need new skills, mindsets to appropriately leverage advanced technologies like AI, says UAB professor Christy Harris Lemak.

As markets consolidate, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, MetroHealth and Essentia Health executives launch partnerships and respond to new competitors.

Capital costs were likely affected by increased interest rates, supply chain issues and inflationary pressures, said experts.

Oak Street Health CEO Mike Pykosz spoke with Modern Healthcare about how new owner CVS Health's resources will grow the primary care provider's business.

The escalating hospital-at-home market is attracting new players to the space, who are offering turnkey and a la cart services to providers.

CancerX, a joint effort between the federal government and private industry stakeholders, is part of the White House’s Cancer Moonshot initiative. 

The combination of St. Louis-based BJC and Kansas City, Missouri-based Saint Luke’s would form a system that spans Missouri, mirroring other statewide expansions. 

A bipartisan deal to raise the government’s borrowing limit dashed Republican hopes for new Medicaid work requirements and other health spending cuts.