The Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into UnitedHealth Group for possible Medicare fraud, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The company's stock slipped 8% in after-hours trade following the report, which follows a series of problems at the insurer. While the exact nature of the criminal allegations is unclear, the probe by the healthcare fraud unit of the DOJ's criminal division has been active since at least last summer.
President Donald Trump's new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms helped her find a romantic partner. Dr. Casey Means' recommendation to consider guided psilocybin-assisted therapy is notable because psilocybin is illegal under federal law.
One of America's biggest for-profit hospital operators is bankrupt, broken, and responsible for countless mistreated patients—thanks to its private equity overlords.
Stony Brook Medicine is the first on Long Island — and one of a select number of healthcare systems nationwide — to implement an artificial intelligence technology, HeartFlow Plaque Analysis™, to enable its physicians to more accurately understand the blockages present in the coronary arteries of patients with suspected heart disease.
The Medicaid portion of the House GOP's massive domestic policy bill would result in 10.3 million people losing Medicaid coverage by 2034 and 7.6 million people going uninsured, according to a partial Congressional Budget Office estimate. Republicans released the estimates just ahead of the start of Tuesday's markup of the Energy and Commerce portion of the party-line legislation, which is key to enacting President Trump's agenda. The uninsured numbers include 1.4 million people without verified citizenship who would be removed from the program and 4.8 million people who would lose coverage because of work requirements, the committee said.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify before Congress today for the first time since taking the role of U.S. health secretary, and will face questions over the firing of thousands of health agency employees and a fast-growing measles outbreak.