Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota sued now-incarcerated Martin "Pharma Bro" Shkreli, alleging the company intentionally monopolized the market and illegally jacked up the price of a "gold-standard" drug.

Alignment Healthcare, an Orange, Calif.-based startup that offers Medicare Advantage plans, is preparing to go public. It estimates the Medicare Advantage market will be worth $500 billion by 2025.

Oscar Health's share price on the New York Stock Exchange hovered around $31 Friday afternoon before market close, a decline of about 20% from the $39 pricing the company set for its initial public offering Tuesday evening. 

Preliminary numbers from the federal government show healthcare added 19,900 jobs in February. While a modest number, it's an improvement from the 84,700 jobs lost in January.

Before the pandemic, a majority of U.S. healthcare industry leaders—including nearly half of the nation’s hospital boards—said their organization did not have a formal succession plan in place.

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"We are seeing a fair amount of primary-care doctors leave hospital-based employment and come to organizations like us," said Tim Barry, CEO of the Chicago-based clinic operator.

Abbott said it has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a test that can detect and differentiate the coronavirus, influenza A, influenza B and respiratory syncytial virus.

The Haven experience revealed that even three of the largest and most successful companies could not change healthcare alone. For that, we need more employers working together and aligned with a common vision.

Conversations with 10 Kaiser enrollees in five states—California, Colorado, Maryland, Virginia and Washington—revealed a common frustration: difficulty snagging an appointment. 

Proceeds of the fraud were used to fund private jet flights, courtside tickets to the NBA Finals, and the purchase of luxury automobiles, jewelry and real estate, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

The Food and Drug Administration has tried to signal via a number of public comments that the agency would be flexible regarding test performance requirements and use models, but that has largely failed to speed development and commercialization of rapid antigen tests.

Scientists say unprepared immune cells appear to be responding to the coronavirus with a devastating release of chemicals, inflicting damage that may endure long after the threat has been eliminated.

Investment reached a high mark between October and the end of the year, with just more than $1 billion spent in three months, according to a recent report from the New York City Health Business Leaders, a trade group focused on healthcare and technology.

Several commissioners argued that the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's draft recommendation wouldn't go far enough but said it would be a step in the right direction.

California's Sutter Health lost $321 million on operations in 2020 due to higher expenses and a decline in patient care due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Michigan biomedical technology firm would run the Near South Side hospital, which Trinity Health had been seeking to close.

During the first six months of 2020, physicians reported $9.4 billion less in Medicare claims than expected at the start of the year, with spending down 19% as seniors deferred care during the COVID-19 pandemic.