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In a blow to insurers, the Fifth Circuit sides with providers challenging No Surprises Act billing formula. “Ghost rates” will not be a non-factor.

Fifth Circuit sides with providers challenging No Surprises Act billing formula The ruling is a blow to insurance companies that were previously allowed to include “ghost rates” in reimbursement benchmarks. The court ruled that policy, put in place by HHS and other agencies, is unlawful.

Tracking 12,519 cardiology patients taking semaglutide found a 58% lower risk of all-cause mortality.

Semaglutide’s health benefits may be linked to dose rather than weight loss Tracking 12,519 cardiology patients taking semaglutide found a 58% lower risk of all-cause mortality.

The inexpensive bracelet project has gained momentum that other initiatives can build on in the battle against maternal mortality.

Hospitals chipping away at maternal mortality one birth at a time If you could help break the silence around the nation’s maternal mortality crisis for something like 1 cent per message, wouldn’t you make the spend? If so, know that a growing number of hospitals has already laid the groundwork.

In Canadian dollars, the per-year savings realized were in hospital admissions ($1,961), outpatient visits ($613), specialist care ($432) and primary care visits ($47).

Focused mental healthcare for young people delivers big savings to Canadian healthcare A youth mental-health program, national in scale, has been shown to save a country’s public health system $4,000 a year per patient. And while it’s at it, the program helps young people overcome or better manage serious behavioral issues.

UCHealth sued for allegedly sharing patient data with Facebook. The health system denies the allegations.

UCHealth sued for allegedly sharing patient data with Facebook The lawsuit touches on the common complaint of third-party tracking code being used on websites that in some cases captures sensitive information in patient portals and search forms. UCHealth denies the allegations.

AnMed suffered a data breach in late July that has left some of its systems still offline. Now, a hacker group called “The Gentlemen” is claiming credit for the attack in an unusual way.

‘The Gentlemen’ ransomware gang takes over hospital Facebook after cyberattack AnMed, a nonprofit health system, suffered a data breach in late July that has left some of its systems still offline. Now, an infamous hacker group is claiming credit for the attack in an unusual way.

DentaQuest, the second-largest dental benefits administrator in the U.S., suffered a record-setting cyberattack, impacting 15 million patients.

15M patients impacted by largest healthcare data breach of 2026 DentaQuest, the second-largest dental benefits administrator in the U.S., suffered the record-setting cyberattack in May. A notorious ransomware gang has taken credit for the attack.

Candida auris, or C. auris, is traveling. The CDC has confirmed more than 3,400 infections across 27 states as of July 25.

Drug-resistant, potentially fatal fungus now in more than half of US states The CDC recently reminded hospitals and nursing homes about the hard-to-kill yeast’s penchant for preying on patients who have tubes, catheters or weakened immune systems.

FDA announces recall on Hamilton Medical ventilator components after 4 serious injuries.

FDA announces recall on ventilator components after 4 serious injuries Hamilton Medical announced the recall in July. To date, there have been no deaths associated with the issue.

Funding proposals co-authored with LLMs tend to mimic already-funded research. That’s not a good thing for science—or for taxpayers.

Are LLMs shifting the balance between ‘exploration and exploitation’ in research funding? The meteoric rise of large-language AI is quietly altering if not effectively upending scientific inquiry. It’s been doing so almost since the technology’s public debut in late 2022. And medical research has been anything but exempt.