1. Optum to buy Change Healthcare in $13B deal: 5 details Full story

2. UK variant found in Georgia; COVID-19 hospitalizations flare in South, West — 6 updates Full story

3. 5 healthcare policies more likely to be enacted if Democrats take Senate majority Full story

4. Remote work, telehealth and healthcare's future. Click here to get answers to lingering questions.

5. Surprise billing case study: Providers favored in arbitration decisions Full story

6. Medicaid expansion's effect on hospital finances: 5 study takeaways Full story

7. Los Angeles paramedics told not to transport patients with little chance of survival Full story

8. How the nation's largest outpatient provider transformed its supply chain amid the pandemic. Click here to attend the live virtual discussion.

9. CEO of inpatient treatment center admits to Medicaid billing fraud Full story

10. Most health plans now required to cover HIV prevention drugs Full story

11. Daily COVID-19 stats, state-by-state:

• Where the virus is spreading fastest, slowest
• Test positivity rates
• Cases
• Death rates
• Hospitalizations