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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz during a news conference on June 23, 2025. During the press conference Kennedy and Oz announced a plan they hope will streamline pre-authorizations for health procedures by health insurance providers. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

US health, tech officials to launch data-sharing plan

By Rachel Cohrs Zhang, John Tozzi, and others

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UnitedHealth falls after U.S. opens probe of Medicare billing

By John Tozzi, Cynthia Koons, and others

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UnitedHealth raises concerns with SEC over Ackman post on X

By Bloomberg and John Tozzi

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Cigna plans to limit out-of-pocket drug costs for U.S. patients

By Bloomberg and John Tozzi

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FORTUNE Brainstorm Health 2023<br />
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023<br />
Los Angeles, CA, USA
2:55-3:15 PM<br />
THE FUTURE OF INTEGRATED CARE<br />
Convenient, comprehensive care at an affordable price is a top goal for healthcare companies. As more care is delivered in the home, providers are customizing their offerings and integrating wellness into health services, wherever they are delivered. We talk to CEOs about the future of care, plus how they are disrupting their markets and managing growth at their companies.
Karen Lynch, Chief Executive Officer, CVS Health<br />
Javier J. Rodriguez, Chief Executive Officer, DaVita<br />
Moderator: Clifton Leaf, Former Editor-in-Chief, FORTUNE, and Founder, Brainstorm Health
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune

CVS ousts CEO Karen Lynch, names Caremark head as new chief

By John Tozzi, Fiona Rutherford, and others

In this photo illustration, an insulin pen manufactured by the Novo Nordisk company is being held and prepared for use.

FTC Sues CVS, Cigna, UnitedHealth over insulin prices

By John Tozzi, Leah Nylen, and others

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A $190 million phone call: Medicare Advantage insurance giant accuses government of stripping bonus payments after one bad ‘secret shopper’ call

By John Tozzi and Bloomberg

SACRAMENTO, CA – FEBRUARY 11: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban celebrates during the game against the Sacramento Kings on February 11, 2023 at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2023 NBAE (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)

Mark Cuban’s upstart online pharmacy just scored a big win by teaming with one of California’s biggest health insurers

By John Tozzi, Fiona Rutherford, and others

Amazon is buying a firm with medical centers across the country for $3.49 billion in latest move to dominate healthcare industry

By Matt Day, John Tozzi, and others

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Anthem says COVID-related care will continue to drive up medical costs in 2022

By John Tozzi and Bloomberg

LOS ANGELES, CA – DECEMBER 31: Registered nurse Akiko Gordon, left, and Repertory Therapist Janssen Redondo, right, are working inside the ICU with a covid-19 positive patient at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH) on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Hospitals struggle to match Walmart pay as staff leave workforce due to Omicron

By John Tozzi and Bloomberg

HOUSTON, TEXAS – AUGUST 18: Emergency Room nurses and EMTs tend to patients in hallways at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital on August 18, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Across Houston, hospitals have been forced to treat hundreds of patients in hallways and corridors as their emergency rooms are being overwhelmed due to the sharp increase in Delta variant cases. Hospitals are straining to keep up with the surge of new coronavirus patients as schools and businesses continue to reopen. Houston has seen an upward increase in Delta infections, and research is showing the Delta variant to be 60% more contagious than its predecessor the Alpha variant, also known as COVID-19. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Hospitals faced a surge in non-COVID infections in 2020

By John Tozzi and Bloomberg

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA – DECEMBER 23: Leonida Lipshy, RN in the COVID unit at the Broward Health Medical Center, gives Jaime Carrillo, M.D. Internal Medicine, Broward Health Imperial Point, a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on December 23, 2020 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Broward Health Medical Center began vaccinating frontline healthcare workers last week with the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine and are continuing to inoculate frontline caregivers with both of the vaccines after the arrival of the Moderna. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Vaccine efficacy among frontline workers declined as Delta arose, according to CDC study

By John Tozzi and Bloomberg

Respiratory therapist Andrew Hoyt cares for a COVID-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, with the word ‘Merry’ posted on the window a few days before Christmas, on December 21, 2020 in Chula Vista, California. According to state figures, Southern California currently has 0% of its ICU (Intensive Care Unit) bed capacity remaining amid a spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

Nearly twice as many Americans are hospitalized right now with COVID-19 than in spring

By Nic Querolo, John Tozzi, and others

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U.S. will conduct an unofficial dry run of a COVID-19 vaccine campaign this fall

By John Tozzi, Angelica LaVito, and others