9 more drugmakers join Trump's Medicaid MFN pricing deal
Plus: Aon to acquire USI Insurance Services for $17 billion. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
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FDA warning letter drives nationwide chemo drug shortage
Plus: 23 states sue HHS over new Title X family planning conditions. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
UPDATE: PE physician-practice deals on pace to fall by half in 2026
Plus: NAACOS asks CMS to extend ACO REACH through 2027 as LEAD looms. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
BioXcel Therapeutics files Chapter 11, sells assets to Teva
Plus: Hawaii's HMSA reverses value-based pay to fee-for-service. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
CMS says it blocked $1.6B in fraudulent Medicare lab payments
Plus: Connecticut AG fights 2027 health insurance rate hikes. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
Sword Health to acquire Headspace for up to $300M
Plus: AusperBio raises $120M Series C for hepatitis B therapy. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
TVH pays $541.5M in largest FL healthcare fraud settlement
Plus: Georgia receives $93.3M in federal rural health funding. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
UHS's Henderson Hospital closes maternity and NICU, converts to medical-surgical beds
Plus: CHQPR finds 124 rural L&D closures since 2020, only 41% of rural hospitals still deliver. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
FTC clears Ascension's $3.9B AmSurg deal, forces 7 ASC divestitures
Plus: Onos Health raises $17M Series A with CVS Health Ventures backing. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
CMS defers $2B in Medicaid payments to California amid hospice fraud crisis
Plus: DermTech to pay $5M for billing Medicare with unreliable skin cancer tests. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
Flexpoint sells ArtesRx pharmacy platform to Linden Capital Partners
Plus: Cityblock Health acquires Homeward Health, raises $116M Series E. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
Alabama distributes first $144M from federal rural health program
Plus: DOJ launches National Fraud Detection Center for healthcare billing fraud. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.