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Kraft Heinz and Ralph Lauren are among a group of six large self-insured employers suing UnitedHealth, alleging the insurer routinely approved and paid false, fraudulent and inflated medical claims with their employee health plan money while pocketing undisclosed fees. The…

A patient who comes back to the emergency department repeatedly is often bringing more than a medical problem. Unstable housing, mental health and substance use challenges, food insecurity, unreliable transportation and trouble getting follow-up care can all send individuals back…

Many patient safety initiatives are missing a key component that can mean the difference between long-term change and abandoned projects: executive follow-through. “Patient safety is not an initiative problem in American healthcare,” Kriti Shree, a healthcare performance improvement and transformation…

Hackers used Anthropic’s Claude Code to compromise at least 15 healthcare organizations in Argentina, according to cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. A second threat actor, who is Chinese-speaking, primarily reached Claude models through a China-based proxy service and targeted more than 20…

Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health has named Amanda Todorovich senior vice president and chief marketing officer, effective Nov. 16. Ms. Todorovich announced the appointment in an Oct. 25 LinkedIn post. She joins Duke Health after nearly 14 years at Cleveland Clinic,…

The U.S. spent $5.3 trillion on healthcare in 2024, or more than $10 million every minute, according to a KFF Health News analysis published Oct. 23. The analysis draws on the most recent national health expenditure data from CMS. National…

Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association voted Oct. 22-23 to reject the proposed contract offer from Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital, part of Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham. The union, which represents more than 4,000 Brigham nurses, did not release…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Institute has established a task force to evaluate AI tools and streamline their adoption into operations and clinical care.  The task force, called the Cancer Institute Office of Technology and Digital Strategy, is led by oncologists Paul…