Medical groups affiliated with major health systems like Sutter Health, Adventist Health and CommonSpirit Health were among those that received federal COVID-19 relief loans for small businesses.

Universal Health Services said Friday it has reached a final settlement with the Department of Justice over civil false claims regarding its behavioral health facilities.

As part of its strategy to administer the vaccine as quickly as possible, the Trump administration has agreed to invest more than half a billion in tax dollars in ApiJect Systems America, a young company whose injector is not approved by federal health authorities and that hasn't yet set up a factory to manufacture the devices.

If Congress and HHS don't address the issue, who gets stuck with the potentially big bill for COVID-19 tests for occupational and public health purposes could remain a gray area.

Occupancy fell from 87.7% in the first quarter of 2020 to 84.9% in the second, marking both the largest drop and the lowest occupancy rate since 2005.

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A small study strengthens evidence that a pregnant woman infected with the coronavirus might be able to spread it to her fetus.

HHS officials said the new distribution is being made because they realized some safety-net hospitals didn't meet the criteria for an earlier $10 billion distribution.

While hospital patients can get the findings back within a day, people getting tested at urgent care centers, community health centers, pharmacies and government-run drive-thru or walk-up sites are often waiting a week or more.

A new study finds female surgeons teaching general surgery residents received higher evaluation scores on average compared to their male peers.

CMS, HHS and other federal agencies want new flexibilities for group health plans grandfathered in under the ACA. The changes would increase out-of-pocket costs for members.

In addition to 105 new deaths, Texas reported a new high for hospitalizations for the 10th consecutive day, and the rolling rate of positive tests inched closer to nearly 16%—the highest in the pandemic yet.

Only around 14% of adult intensive-care unit beds in Florida are available, with 46 hospital ICUs operating at full capacity as they see a rise in COVID-19 cases.

A San Francisco judge denied Sutter Health's request to delay a preliminary hearing on its antitrust settlement, but said she will give leeway if the health system's hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.

Mississippi's five largest hospitals had no intensive-care unit beds available for patients by midweek because of a surge in coronavirus cases, officials reported. Four more hospitals had 5% or less of those beds available.

The lawsuit accused Teladoc Health of hiring Health Insurance Innovations to make telemarketing calls—which allegedly violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act—on the company's behalf.

Cleveland Clinic Florida has opened a research and innovation center in Florida that will complement and expand research underway in the clinic's five hospitals in the state, as well as research at the Lerner Research Institute in Cleveland.

The World Health Organization is acknowledging the possibility that COVID-19 might be spread in the air under certain conditions — after more than 200 scientists urged the agency to do so.

There’s only one hope for preventing widespread lockdowns this fall. It lies in convincing anti-social skeptics that everyone needs to wear masks, socially distance and limit public gatherings, even as their titular leader encourages resistance.

The coronavirus pandemic pushed Walgreens to a $1.7 billion loss in the most recent quarter with customers staying home or limiting shopping to essential supplies from grocery stores.

Illinois' biggest independent doctors’ practice taps a former executive with UnitedHealth Group.

Michigan health workers must receive "implicit bias" training tied to their professional licensure, the governor ordered, saying the mandate will help address the coronavirus pandemic's disproportionate and deadly impact on people of color.

About half of those patients had health information exposed on account of a ransomware attack at managed healthcare company Magellan Health. Another breach involved a startup doing business with Providence Health Plan.

The United Hospital Fund said some New Yorkers could get more affordable health coverage through the state's marketplace if they could subtract their student loan payments from their income when they apply.

Biden-Sanders task force provides details on a public insurance option, and suggests a crackdown on healthcare mergers and acquisitions.