National health spending grew almost 3% in 2021, reaching $4.3 trillion as big increases in healthcare use and insurance coverage were offset by lower government spending on COVID-19. The year’s ...

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions surged in 2021, growing 56% in the 12 months through Nov. 15 versus 2020. There was particularly high growth among physician medical groups, which saw more than 400 ...

As health systems and hospitals are under unprecedented stress from the COVID-19 pandemic, their IT departments also are facing critical skills and staffing shortages as they battle unrelenting ...

In 2021, enrollment in employment-based group coverage declined while enrollment in individual-market (non-group) coverage and Medicaid increased. Those coverage gains were primarily driven by ...

The federal government recovered more than $5 billion in healthcare fraud settlements and judgments in fiscal year 2021, according to the joint annual government Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control ...

U.S. digital health startups nabbed a record $29.1 billion in funding in 2021, nearly double the investment volume in the year prior, according to a new report from Rock Health. That was across 729 ...

This is the second annual Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Survey released since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite widespread workplace disruption, the key metrics we ...

An estimated 333,942 healthcare providers dropped out of the workforce in 2021, according to an Oct. 20 report from Definitive Healthcare. Definitive Healthcare analyzed medical claims data, based on ...

It's been a big year for wheeling and dealing in the healthcare IT space, that much is for sure. And the biggest of all happened just days before the calendar flipped over, with Oracle's landmark ...