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Proposed Rule Would Make Hospital Prices Even More Transparent
The proposed rule is designed to make it easier for consumers to learn in advance exactly what they might owe for nonemergency hospital care — though that was what the original price transparency rules were supposed to do.
HCA Notifies 11M Patients Affected in Data Breach
The healthcare system is facing multiple class-action lawsuits stemming from the data breach.
California Releases Proposed Regulations on Health Care Transaction Notice Requirements
Following the lead of states like New York, California seeks to address the increasing costs of health care services by imposing significant notice and review requirements for mergers and acquisitions beginning in 2024.
HHS Warns Hospitals of ‘Smishing’ Attacks
Many are already aware of the dangers of clicking a link in email messages; fewer people are aware of the dangers of clicking links in text messages. Users are much more trusting of text messages, so smishing is often lucrative to attackers phishing for credentials,
Debt Costs Drag on Healthcare Services Dealmaking: Report
PE dealmaking for healthcare services companies slowed further in Q2 as some heavily leveraged platforms strain under the growing cost of debt and impending maturity walls.
Health System Execs Bullish on Generative AI, but Still Lack Strategy
Further out, in the next two to five years, hospital leaders say they're planning more AI-powered initiatives around predictive analytics, decision support, guided treatment insights and more, according to a new Bain report.
PE Weekly: Tech and Healthcare Continue to Win
New research forecasts a moderate compound annual growth rate of 10.2% for the global private equity market from 2023 to 2028 and singles out the tech and healthcare sectors as those with the most potential.
Bon Secours, HCA Duel Over Plans for New Free-Standing Emergency Centers Near Richmond, VA
The health systems each want to build new free-standing emergency centers with CT and MRI imaging machines within a few miles of each other south of Ashland, VA.
UnitedHealth’s $3.3B Deal for Amedisys Gets Antitrust Review
The home-health company disclosed in a regulatory filing that it received a so-called second request seeking additional information on the deal from the DOJ.
Challenges Pushing More Consolidation in Home Healthcare
Continued financial headwinds are likely to force further consolidation in the sector.