Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up An initiative by insurance companies to reduce high-cost doctor ...

Insurer Aetna is pulling back on a downcoding policy for inpatient Medicare Advantage claims after at least one prominent hospital group criticized the original policy. In a notice posted to its ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The U.S. healthcare system needs to be "reimagined" and reformed, American Medical Association (AMA) members agreed -- but there was less agreement on exactly who should be ...

Pope Leo XIV warned Monday that artificial intelligence could exacerbate “antihuman ideologies” in medicine as Catholic doctors and moral theologians raise alarms about the future of AI in health care ...

“Guilty until proven innocent.” That’s how one practice owner described downcoding policies being implemented by large insurers on local independent physicians. After reviewing billing statements, ...

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Senegal has recorded 17 deaths from Rift Valley Fever, with 119 cases, a health ministry official said, in a rare major outbreak of the ...

In the beginning of the year, Dr. Terry Wagner’s office manager came to him and said “something weird is going on.” For weeks, the office manager told him, Wagner had been quietly underpaid by the ...

Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. A federal judge in Texas threw out a Biden-era rule last week that would have ramped up federal ...

North Korea’s leader ruled out talks with Seoul but signaled he is open to resuming dialogue with President Donald Trump if Washington drops its demand that Pyongyang give up nuclear weapons, state ...

When seven expectant mothers in Palm Beach County had their babies delivered by midwives at Florida Woman Care, one of the largest female health care operations in the state, the cost should have been ...