From a medical group suing Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health to a Washington hospital settling an age discrimination case, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.

Health insurers selling policies on the ACA exchanges will be required to show star ratings for the first time during the 2020 enrollment period, CMS said Aug. 15.

The Connecticut Office of Health Strategy has approved Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare's acquisition of substantially all of the assets of St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., from Ascension.

If you are looking for a consensus on the success or failure of Medicare’s Accountable Care Organization experiment, you are not likely to find it. That’s because while most ACOs have improved the quality of care, few have been able to cut costs enough to earn meaningful financial rewards under the program. They have achieved only half of the goal of creating greater value.

The federal government must come up with a bipartisan solution to improve the quality of rural healthcare, according to Tom Daschle, a former Democratic senator and the cofounder of the Bipartisan Policy Center, and Tom Tauke, a former Republican congressman and cofounder of the House Rural Health Coalition.

CMS has provided ICD-10 Procedure Coding System updates for fiscal year 2020 that include 734 additions.

Here are seven recent health information technology vendor contracts and go-lives affecting healthcare organizations.

The following hospitals and health systems posted job listings seeking a billing specialist in the last week:

Despite recent policy push to increase patients' access to their health records, more than half of providers are out of compliance with the HIPAA right of access, according to a recent Ciitizen report.

Rather than relying on exit interviews and their comparisons to occasional employee surveys to determine engagement, organizations can turn instead to big data and advanced analytics to identify those workers at greatest risk of quitting.

Due to the massive influx of new and increasingly advanced medical technology, the clinician training process has never been more complex — but it can be made easier with the help of similarly high-tech tools.

Department of Veterans Affairs released a new mobile application that aims to simplify veterans’ and caregivers’ access to healthcare information by storing it on a single platform. 

Healthcare revenue cycle management companies Aspirion Health Resources and Specialized Healthcare Partners are combining into one organization that will serve 369 hospitals in 31 states, company officials announced Aug. 15.

CMS has provided ICD-10 Procedure Coding System updates for fiscal year 2020 that include 2,056 deletions.

U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is granting $79 million to Accenture, a digital and technology services company, to help drive improvements in health informatics, virtual health and artificial intelligence initiatives.

A psychologist in Birmingham, Ala., will plead guilty to falsely billing the state's Medicaid program for services that weren't performed, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

Oscar Health signed a reinsurance deal with a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, the health insurance startup shared in a second-quarter earnings statement cited by Forbes contributor Bruce Japsen.    

Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., has received a $7 million donation from local philanthropists Terri and Jerry Kohl, the founders of accessories company Brighton Collectibles, hospital officials announced Aug. 14.

Healthcare companies are the highest-paying employers in more than a quarter of all states, according to Money.

Health information exchange networks Missouri Health Connection and Kansas Health Information Network formed an agreement Aug. 12 that will allow the organizations to share EHR data of more than 20 million combined patients across the Midwest.