A federal appeals court has rolled back a Biden administration proposed rule on sex discrimination in a ruling blocking a transgender care mandate.

Another lawsuit, another loss for a major insurer. What happened, exactly? I’m Jeff Lagasse with Healthcare Finance News and we’ll put that question and others under the microscope in this week’s Top Stories, including the FBI’s ongoing healthcare cybersecurity efforts, and Ultromics receiving FDA clearance for a heart failure offering.

High-intensity billing during “treat and release” emergency department stays rose significantly from 2006 to 2019, and was partially fueled by factors such as changes in case mix and service offering expansions, according to a new study in Health Affairs.

Under the watchful eye of the Federal Trade Commission, UnitedHealth Group and LHC Group have extended their merger agreement to March 28, 2023, with the deal expected to close sometime during the first quarter, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The American Medical Association is thanking the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) for acknowledging during its meeting on Thursday what it called the growing gap between the costs of practicing medicine and what Medicare pays. 

BOSTON – The issue with cybersecurity from a clinical point of view is that physicians and nurses just want things to work. They often want cybersecurity to be bolted on to make patient information secure, according to experts speaking during the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum this week.

Upwards of 18 million people could lose Medicaid coverage, and four million people could become uninsured entirely when the COVID-19 public health emergency expires next year, according to a recently published analysis from the Urban Institute. This could result in the biggest changes in coverage since the Affordable Care Act was implemented more than a decade ago, […]

The American Hospital Association has released

Greg Miller, chief growth officer at health IT vendor Lumeon, says that manual methods for coordinating and verifying points in a patient’s clinical journey cause provider burnout.