Optum is shutting down its virtual care business after a three-year run. Industry experts aren’t very surprised by the news.

The waters have been rough for telehealth providers and retail clinics in the past couple years — to know that, one has to look no further than the stock prices of Teladoc and Amwell. Yet, amid this ...

Abbott earned a groundbreaking FDA approval on Monday for its dissolving stent designed to unclog arteries below the knee. The device, called the Esprit BTK System, is meant to treat patients who ...

In this month’s episode, Senior Reporter Katie Adams explored some executive hires and exits that recently occurred in the healthcare world, as well as layoffs affecting the industry. She also ...

The implementation of AI is becoming table stakes, with use cases and successes in healthcare becoming a reality. However, as the industry shifts the AI narrative from hype to cautious adoption ...

More than 33,000 Providence employees filed a class-action complaint against the health system in 2021, alleging that it had been withholding their wages by denying them breaks and rounding down their ...

Season 2 of the MedCity Pivot Podcast has launched with a special focus on the evolution of phamacy and pharmacy benefit management. The first guest this season is A.J. Loiacono, who leads Capital ...

It started as a response to quell the unexpected overflow of hospitalizations during Mardi Gras in 1970s New Orleans but today travel nursing is a contentious topic that has turned into a Band-Aid ...

HLTH has worked to cultivate a compelling series of discussions around health insurance practices, government policy and how public and private plans are using health tech to improve healthcare ...

A primary immunodeficiency whose rarity means it can go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed in a patient for years now has its first drug. The FDA has approved a once-daily therapy that addresses the ...

This week, the Federal Trade Commission hit virtual mental health startup Cerebral with a $7 million fine, accusing the company of mishandling users’ sensitive health data and misleading ...