CMS has released its Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule for 2026, which would raise Medicare outpatient payment rates next year. Five things to know: 1. Payment update. CMS proposed ...

A federal court in Missouri has dismissed a legal challenge by drugmaker AbbVie to the state’s new 340B contract pharmacy law, which aims to regulate how pharmaceutical companies interact with ...

Minnesota Nurses Association members at hospitals across the Twin Cities area and in Duluth have voted to ratify new contracts following four months of negotiations, according to a July 14 union news ...

Resource pool nurses working at Legacy Health hospitals in Oregon and Washington have voted to join the Oregon Nurses Association. The election — which concluded July 8 — covers more than 200 nurses ...

Kathleen Healy has been appointed chief legal officer of Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health. She stepped into the role July 14. In her new role, Ms. Healy will oversee legal, compliance, risk ...

Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health’s rating was upgraded to “A2” from “A3” by Moody’s. The upgrade reflects the system’s maintenance of strong operating cash flow, translating into improving ...

Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag became the first hospital in the U.S. to offer EsoGuard testing. The test is used by physicians to detect precancerous DNA changes in esophageal cells, helping to ...

HHS resumed workforce reductions on July 14 after the U.S. Supreme Court greenlit President Donald Trump’s executive order to reorganize and reduce staff across the federal government, Bloomberg ...

California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would ease some of the nation’s strictest pharmacy staffing limits, allowing pharmacists to supervise more technicians at once. Under Assembly Bill 1503, ...

Chicago-based Shirley Ryan AbilityLab has tapped Cheri Blauwet, MD, as senior vice president and chief clinical officer.  Dr. Blauwet will step into the role in September, according to a July 11 news ...

Google has created the Consumer Health Advisory Panel, a group of external experts tasked with guiding the company’s development of health-focused technologies. According to a July 15 news release ...

The new IT chief of Browns Mills, N.J.-based Deborah Heart and Lung Center told Becker’s he plans to leverage data and AI to help providers make better clinical decisions while ignoring the “shiny ...