SCOTUS dismisses the Idaho abortion law case, leaving the state’s emergency abortion ban paused, an appeals court mostly upholds the ACA preventive services mandate, and Cone Health plans to join Kaiser Permanente subsidiary Risant Health.

In late April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established new staffing standards for long-term care (LTC) facilities, mandating a minimum of 3.48 hours of nursing care per patient per day, with 33 minutes of that care from a registered nurse, at least one of whom must be always on site.

Artificial intelligence can provide the tool necessary to untangle complex healthcare agreements and contracts. In academic healthcare, this can support efforts to restore a funds flow model to what has been legally agreed to or negotiate a new funds flow agreement.

Health systems are faced with two conflicting realities. The first is that partnerships will continue to be a necessary and critical part of healthcare strategy. The second is that antitrust enforcement will continue to create strong barriers to these same partnerships.

Novant cancels its plan to acquire two North Carolina hospitals from CHS amid an FTC challenge, Amazon expands its RxPass generic drug subscription service to Medicare, and the DOJ accuses two executives at telehealth startup Done of an Adderall distribution scheme.

In honor of Pride Month, the graphic highlights the inequities many members of the LGBTQ+ community report facing when accessing healthcare services.

After several years of grappling with one existential challenge after another, many organizations may find the task of resetting their strategy overwhelming. In our experience, most health systems have not asked or answered the difficult questions required to chart a new path.

For Medicaid plans that enjoyed a surge in business during the pandemic, this rapid decline in the market may be disheartening, and the large rapid shifts in the Medicaid risk pools will be challenging to manage to target profit margins in the near-term.

An FDA advisory committee recommends approval of Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug, the Biden administration proposes banning medical debt from credit reports, and Elevance becomes the second insurer to win a MA star ratings lawsuit.

In this week’s graphic, we take stock of digital health funding and the fate of several digital health startups that went public during the funding boom of 2021.

Rating meetings should include a meaningful discussion of notable achievements along with a frank, no-spin discussion of the risks the organization is facing. This balance will build credibility with the rating analyst and, ultimately, the rating committee.

Portland, OR-based health systems OHSU and Legacy sign a definitive merger agreement, Dollar General ends its mobile health clinic pilot, and a House subcommittee focuses on the need for 340B transparency.