Addus HomeCare buys AccentCare's personal care division for $275M

Plus: Jackson Hospital emerges from bankruptcy on BCBS deal and state funding. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.

NCPA and CMS preview the next Part D contract-terms rulemaking

Plus: Omnicare's confirmation hearing is Sept 17, last step before settlement closes. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.

Altas Partners and L Catterton buy majority stake in Fullscript

Plus: UHS says ACA exchange losses becoming uncompensated care. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.

Illinois aid-in-dying law takes effect after judge declines injunction

Plus: FDA classifies cardiovascular AI notification software. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.

Rural fund can't save Sturgis Hospital despite REH conversion

Plus: Henry Ford closes River District ER and inpatient care. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.

UnitedHealth sells TPG a stake in the Florida clinics that broke its 2025 earnings

Plus: Elevance surges, UnitedHealth stumbles, at the same investor conference. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.

UnitedHealth CFO says MA turnaround beats plan, still cutting members

Plus: Trinity Health cuts 557 IT jobs in Michigan IT outsourcing. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.

CMS bars 11 companies over $3.4B in Medicare Advantage fraud

Plus: California failed to return $99M in identified Medicaid overpayments. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.

Radiology Partners signs to acquire Everlight Radiology, building a global teleradiology network

Plus: CY2027 fee schedule comments close September 14, facility based practice expense cut in play. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.

KFF finds $60B national Medicaid hospital funding squeeze, Texas crisis deepens

Plus: Insurers told Wall Street before members which Medicare Advantage plans end. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.

9 more drugmakers join Trump's most-favored-nation pricing deal

Plus: Federal deadline passed for Medicaid work-requirement notices. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.

Sham-controlled trial questions AFib ablation's quality-of-life benefit

Plus: ACC pushes CMS on cardiac PET/CT pay and a site-neutral imaging cut. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.

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.

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.