Johnson & Johnson's acquisition of Auris Health, a maker of robotic diagnostics and surgical devices, tops market researcher EvaluatePharma's list of the 10 largest acquisitions  in medical technology this year. 

A California firm has said it would increase its bid to $60 million for Philadelphia-based Hahnemann University Hospital's more than 550 residency slots if bidding was renewed, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry and Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, W.Va., will lay off about 1,200 employees when they close in October, according to The Intelligencer.

A New York City physician faces four to nine years in prison after pleading guilty Aug. 13 to second-degree manslaughter for writing prescriptions for a powerful narcotic that led to a patient's death from overdose, according to a press release from New York Attorney General Letitia James.

All but one of the five largest for-profit payers saw double-digit growth in their Medicare Advantage membership in the second quarter of fiscal year 2019.

Former Springfield (Vt.) Hospital CEO Tim Ford filed a lawsuit against the hospital board, the current CEO, the interim CEO and operator Quorum Health Resources, alleging he was the board's "scapegoat" for the hospital's financial issues, VT Digger reports.

Astria Health, a three-hospital health system based in Sunnyside, Wash., is closer to its goal of getting out of bankruptcy after switching billing companies, CEO John Gallagher told the Yakima Sunrise Rotary Club, the Yakima Herald-Republic reported.

Hospital quality ratings systems can misclassify hospital performance and provide conflicting information for healthcare consumers, eight physician leaders and researchers wrote in a commentary published in NEJM Catalyst.

Pharmacy benefit managers negotiated $18 billion worth of rebates from drugmakers in Medicare Part D and retained less than 1 percent of those rebates in 2016, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.

The CIO role is changing across hospitals and health systems today as data analytics, innovation and digital technology emerge as important aspects of the role.

Temple University's hospital and health sciences campus were placed on lockdown Wednesday evening when a gunman blocks away fired shots from a home that wounded six Philadelphia police officers after they attempted to serve a narcotics warrant, resulting in a 7 ½-hour standoff, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The operator of Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence, R.I., has reached contracts with employees that include a provision for panic buttons, according to The Breeze.

A new study debunks the theory that the United States' healthcare spending is high because it doesn't invest enough in social services.

Toni Elhoms, a Denver-based provider coding and education consultant, shared four tips with Medical Economics for preventing claim denials due to incorrect evaluation and management code levels.

The University of Louisville (Ky.) board approved a deal Aug. 14 to take over Jewish Hospital and KentuckyOne Health's other Louisville assets, which include three more hospitals and four outpatient centers, according to local news station WDRB.

A clinical trial has had a 90 percent success rate in treating the deadliest strain of tuberculosis, which is resistant to the four types of antibiotics typically used to fight the disease, according to The New York Times.

Nearly 14 percent of internal medicine residents reported experiencing bullying by someone in a senior position during their training program in 2016, according to a study published in JAMA.

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, formerly Children's Memorial Hospital, is the largest pediatric provider in the region.

Two California counties were the first to take legal action against the Trump administration for a new rule that would deny permanent residency to immigrants who have used benefit programs like Medicaid, The New York Times reports.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has entered into a collaboration with Imago Systems, a Lansdowne, Va.-based software company using artificial intelligence for the early detection of abnormalities in imaging data.