The Oakland, Calif.-based integrated health system allegedly pressured its physicians to augment medical records to boost its Medicare reimbursement.

States face a major backlog in surveying nursing homes nationwide for meeting quality and safety requirements.

Kaiser alleges the lack of competition caused it to overpay by "hundreds of millions" of dollars for cholesterol medications Vytorin and Zetia.

The first half of 2021 saw more spending on mergers and acquisitions in the sector than during any full year over the past decade.