Hospitals are suing the federal government over a new organ distribution policy, according to The Gazette.

Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of USC has launched a cardiac and vascular institute, bringing all of the academic medical center's cardiovascular care services under one roof.

Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare and Highmark Health announced a 10-year joint venture April 21. Here are five things to know:

The Bipartisan Policy Center has launched an opioid task force to address drug addiction and overdose deaths in the U.S., the Washington, D.C.-based think tank said April 21.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association announced a five-year goal to reduce racial disparities in maternal health by 50 percent. The goal is part of the payer's National Health Equity Strategy, an initiative to expand healthcare access to disenfranchised populations.

Six healthcare organizations sent a letter to HHS April 20 urging the department to prevent drugmakers from refusing to give 340B drug discounts.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is holding up President Joe Biden's pick to lead CMS after the Biden administration revoked billions in Texas Medicaid funding, The Hill and Politico Pulse reported. 

Most Americans enthusiastic about getting vaccinated against COVID-19 will receive their shots by mid-May, according to Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.

Johnson & Johnson said April 20 it is resuming its COVID-19 vaccine shipments to the European Union, Norway and Iceland.

Anthem recorded a higher profit in the first quarter of fiscal year 2021 than the year prior, thanks in part to growth in its government businesses.

Twenty-seven hospitals made Forbes' list of the most diverse workplaces in the U.S., according to an April 20 Forbes report.

A new analysis of brain autopsies from 41 COVID-19 patients suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 virus does not infect the brain, but can still cause significant neurological damage. 

In terms of usability, nurses grade EHRs as an "F" rating and attribute them as a main cause of burnout, according to an April 19 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.  

Oscar Health now has a technology platform called +Oscar, the health insurance startup said April 20.

The following five hospital and health system credit rating downgrades occurred in the past month. They are listed in alphabetical order. 

EHR vendors Cerner and Athenahealth's appeal of a patent for CliniComp's healthcare management system failed to pass in the federal circuit's patent office April 20, according to court documents. 

Below are six healthcare companies that posted job listings seeking chief technology officers in the last few weeks.

California has the highest number of active physicians in the country, while Wyoming has the fewest, according to Kaiser Family Foundation data published April 20.

About 75 percent of all new COVID-19 cases reported in the U.S. last week were in Michigan, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The CEOs of Centene, HCA Healthcare and AbbVie are among the highest-paid chief executives of the largest U.S. companies, according to Equilar.