The first phase of Kaiser Permanente’s rollout of Risant Health has been completed, as the new nonprofit organization has officially closed its blockbuster acquisition of Geisinger Health.

The nation’s K-12 teachers and school administrators are intrigued by—yet anxious about—the advance of AI into their world.

Critics say the model caters to the wealthy while taking primary care physicians out of circulation for everyone else. Not so, respond concierge proponents.

Hospitals short on cash are more likely than their financially flush counterparts to offer patients interest-accruing loans or credit cards to pay for their care.

‘I have all kinds of nightmare scenarios playing out in my head, like how am I going to pay my bills?’

Medicaid’s $50 billion in improper payments was the highest total for a single program—but it was also the most improved government program, cutting about $30 billion from its 2022 improper payments total. 

If the proposal—of which no financial details were made public—goes through, Steward doctors in nine states would be managed by Optum.

AI adoption for real-world healthcare settings can’t happen in a vacuum.