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3 days ago | 
modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik |Tim Broderick
Breadcrumb Home Mergers & Acquisitions May 13, 2025 01:39 PM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Adobe Stock Healthcare merger and acquisition activity slumped in the first quarter of 2025, according to statistics from Modern Healthcare Data+Insights.
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1 week ago | 
modernhealthcare.com | Lauren Dubinsky |Tim Broderick
Breadcrumb Home Digital Health May 07, 2025 08:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Adobe Stock Medtech companies were involved in fewer mergers and acquisitions during 2025's first quarter but the deals that did occur involved a lot more money.
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2 weeks ago | 
modernhealthcare.com | Lauren Dubinsky |Tim Broderick
Breadcrumb Home Digital Health April 30, 2025 08:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Getty Images Fewer medical devices were recalled during the first three months of the year, following a surge in recalls in 2024.
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1 month ago | 
modernhealthcare.com | Tim Broderick
Universities and academic medical centers would not be alone in bearing the impact of proposed cuts to federal grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health. Counties across the country could lose billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs for their economies, according to recent research.
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1 month ago | 
modernhealthcare.com | Tim Broderick
Healthcare organizations adopting AI tools say they're getting a positive return on their investment but most do not yet have the data to support that belief. Nearly two-thirds of leaders at health systems, insurance companies and vendorsthat have implemented AI solutions either anticipate or have already reported a positive ROI, according to a survey by McKinsey & Company published on March 26. Related: AI isn't showing ROI—yet. Here's where there's promise.
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1 month ago | 
modernhealthcare.com | Tim Broderick
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has taken more enforcement actions in the first two months against health systems for not complying with price transparency rules than in all of 2024, but the size of the penalties is dropping. CMS issued seven notices of monetary penalties during January and February, compared with three for all of 2024.
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2 months ago | 
crainscleveland.com | Tim Broderick
Tim Broderick, Modern Healthcare Every year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics issues revised monthly employment numbers often going back several years to account for data that was not available at the time of the original reports. Whether a sector adds jobs or not in the course of a year, the revisions can affect the total.
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2 months ago | 
modernhealthcare.com | Tim Broderick
MH Illustration/Adobe Stock The COVID-19 pandemic was declared a national emergency by the Trump administration on March 13, 2020, and shutdowns related to the public health emergency quickly meant the loss of almost 1.6 million healthcare jobs. Here's a look at how deep the drop in employment was for various types of healthcare jobs and how long it took to recover.
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2 months ago | 
modernhealthcare.com | Nona Tepper |Tim Broderick
Medicare Special Needs Plan sign-ups rose more than the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Wall Street expected during the 2025 annual enrollment period, offering a welcome boost to an otherwise slowing Medicare Advantage market. More than 7.3 million people were enrolled in Special Needs Plans as of Feb. 1, up 10.1% from a year before, according to a Modern Healthcare analysis of data CMS published last week.
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2 months ago | 
modernhealthcare.com | Nona Tepper |Tim Broderick
The more things changed for Medicare Advantage in 2025, the more they stayed the same. The 2025 plan year marked a turning point for Medicare Advantage, as insurers spooked by unfavorable new regulations, low federal reimbursement, an unexpected rise in medical expenses, a marketing crackdown and pushback from providers, stopped selling policies. Previously, insurers viewed the annual sign-up period as an opportunity to capture as many new members as possible.
