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I'll be talking healthcare policy with Donald Rucker and Katherine Hempstead later this week at the Fierce Health Payer Summit in Austin. These two are the experts on health data, coverage trends, gov payment models and plenty more--you won't want to miss it fiercehealthpayersummit.com

#JPM24 is officially underway, and we have Heather Landi and Dave Muoio on the ground bringing you the latest: fiercehealthcare.com/finance/jpm24-…

Pretty easy to read the tea leaves yesterday during the FTC virtual workshop on private equity in healthcare. Comments from @linakhanFTC , Antitrust Division 's Jonathan Kanter, academic researchers and clinicians all pointing toward new antitrust guardrails. fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/fed…

It's that time of year again! Help us determine the most overused buzzword in healthcare in our annual #FierceMadness competition: fiercehealthcare.com/special-report…

Very excited to share that Emma Beavins is now a part of the team at FierceHealthcare! She joins us from Inside Health Policy, where she focused on digital health policy topics at both the state and federal levels. Keep an eye out for her byline: bit.ly/3U5gUyc

Patient advocates and lawmakers were stunned by HHS Secretary Becerra's comments on copay coupons during a House hearing Wednesday, calling his exchange with Buddy Carter an "embarrassment." fiercehealthcare.com/payers/patient…

BREAKING: Walmart is shuttering all 51 health centers along with its virtual care services, the retail giant announced Tuesday morning bit.ly/3UFHDC3

A federal judge in Texas on Thursday sided with American Hospital Association in its lawsuit against HHS.gov barring the use of online tracking technologies. The judge vacated HHS' guidance bit.ly/3z5xiYI

NEW: More than a dozen organizations participated in decarbonization projects as part of a learning collaborative led by Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). More than half measured reductions either in waste or purchases of anesthetic gas. I spoke to several about how it went: fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals/brea…

Very good article by Emma Beavins at FierceHealthcare on the telehealth and digital health policies in the PFS

Fresh AI news this morning: Emma Beavins reports on a collaboration between UTHealth Houston and OpenAI to launch a suite of custom AI solutions bit.ly/3Xt9gzo

A second federal judge has put the Trump administration's "temporary pause" and review of federal financial assistance on ice—and this time the temporary restraining order is indefinite and much more sweeping. fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/tru…

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered HHS to restore web pages and datasets it pulled down and changed on Jan. 31 to follow President Trump's EO on "gender ideology". Some resources must roll back to their Jan. 30 versions by midnight, others by Friday fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/phy…

RFK Jr. has been confirmed as the Secretary of HHS, in a 52-48 vote on Thursday. Republican Senator Mitch McConnell was the only Republican who voted against him. fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/sen…