Several hospitals in the Sunshine State, including six in Central Florida, are suing UnitedHealthcare for underpaying for emergency services provided. The suit alleges that the healthcare company failed to pay the amount required by Florida law for the services the hospitals offered. "United has unilaterally and consistently decided to underpay the Hospitals these claims at only a fraction of the billed charges, at amounts well below the level of payment required by Florida statute," according to the lawsuit.
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York City, is breaking his silence on the outpouring of support since his arrest in Pennsylvania on murder and terrorism charges last month. Mangione is currently awaiting trial at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. "I am overwhelmed by — and grateful for — everyone who has written me to share their stories and express their support," Mangione wrote in a statement published on his website, which was launched by the 26-year-old's legal defense team in New York.
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found that intracranial hemorrhages, or "brain bleeds" caused by a ruptured blood vessel in the brain, double a person's risk of developing dementia later in life.
Another hospital maternity unit is closing in rural north-central Pennsylvania, leaving a seven-county swath of the state — about the size of Connecticut — without labor and delivery care. The 25-bed UPMC Cole Hospital in Coudersport, Potter County, announced that it was closing its three-bed obstetrics unit effective April 7. The Pittsburgh-based health system will consolidate services at UPMC Wellsboro Hospital, about 35 miles away, while continuing to offer outpatient women's healthcare at Cole.
The Trump administration's effort to slash the size of the federal workforce reached the FDA this weekend, as recently hired employees who review the safety of food ingredients, medical devices and other products were fired. Probationary employees across the FDA received notices Saturday evening that their jobs were being eliminated. The total number of positions eliminated was not clear Sunday, but the firings appeared to focus on employees in the agency's centers for food, medical devices and tobacco products. It was not clear whether FDA employees who review drugs were exempted.
Bigger bonuses, higher executive salaries and a few eye-popping retirement payouts. That’s how St. Luke's Health System closed the books on its final year as a nonprofit independent hospital chain, according to recent tax filings. The $2.5 billion hospital system, which merged with St. Louis-based nonprofit BJC Healthcare at the start of 2024, paid one-third more in bonuses and incentives to its top-earning employees in 2023 compared to the previous year. Combined total compensation for those employees, whose salaries are included in the hospital system's 990 tax filings, was up 27%. Not surprisingly, executives at the top of the organizational chart saw the biggest paydays.