A Florida judge has ruled in favor of CVS, Walgreens and Walmart in a lawsuit brought by 16 hospitals seeking $2 billion in damages related to the opioid epidemic. Broward County Chief Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips entered judgment for the defendants…
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About 1 in 6 patients with COVID-19 has developed long COVID and nearly 9 in 10 of those cases involve chronic conditions requiring ongoing clinical management, according to a study published May 27 in JAMA Network Open. A team led…
Tampa, Fla.-based Oglethorpe — an operator of psychiatric hospitals — and three of its executives agreed to pay $32 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by failing to return Medicare overpayments tied to psychiatric admissions at three Ohio…
Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health appointed two chief nursing officers and two chief medical officers across six of its 20 hospitals in Tennessee and Virginia, according to a May 28 news release. Chief nursing officers Kristen Looney, RN, was named…
Generation Z is entering the workforce at a moment of significant disruption, with AI poised to reshape entire industries before many new graduates have found their footing, The Wall Street Journal reported May 27. LinkedIn predicts today’s workforce entrants will…
Indianapolis-based Indiana University has named Scott Boden, MD, executive vice president for university clinical affairs and dean of the IU School of Medicine, according to a May 28 news release. Dr. Boden will be the 11th dean in the school’s…
CVS Health Ventures has led a $40 million investment in healthcare AI company H1. The investment comes after CVS Health and H1 worked together on initiatives aimed at helping patients connect with healthcare providers more quickly, according to a May…
CMS told Becker’s it is aware of a reported patient death by suicide at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, which in January was placed in immediate jeopardy for the fourth time since 2019. On…
HCA struck an agreement to acquire an 8,000-student healthcare college, and an independent Maine hospital cleared a regulatory hurdle to joining MaineHealth. Here are three hospital M&A moves that Becker’s reported during the week of May 25: 1. York (Maine)…
Glasgow, Ky.-based T.J. Regional Health has expanded its supply agreement with Medline, adding the company as its laboratory prime vendor. The agreement gives T.J. Regional Health access to Medline’s laboratory product portfolio in addition to its existing medical-surgical supplies contract,…