Health Exec

06/17/2026

‘Unlike financial services, healthcare doesn’t yet have mature AI systems waiting around for better inputs. The infrastructure itself needs building.’

If the economy were an inter-sector track meet in which AI adoption propels the runners, healthcare would be getting repeatedly lapped by financial services.

06/17/2026

Healthcare AI vendor Xsolis suffers data breach, exposing patient records to hackers.

Tennessee-based Xsolis said the incident occurred in January, and the sensitive data was from its clients. The company provides AI-powered case management software to hospitals and health insurers.

06/16/2026

Dietary supplement use increased from 51% in 1999 to 60% in 2023.

Some of today’s most popular products promise better immune, adaptogenic, anti-inflammatory, gut, skin or joint health—or combinations of two or more of the above.

06/16/2026

As the Medicare drug price negotiation program enters its fourth year next year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is looking to put a set of guidelines in place that make it clear how medications are selected for inclusion and what the deliberation process will look like for biopharma companies.

As the Medicare drug price negotiation program enters its fourth year next year, regulators are looking to put a set of guidelines in place that make it clear how medications are selected for inclusion and what the deliberation process will look like for biopharma companies.

06/15/2026

Express Scripts sues Tennessee over PBM law that would close specialty pharmacy, calling the regulation "shortsighted" and arguing it will leave patients without access to critical drugs.

The company called the state’s regulation of pharmacy benefit managers “shortsighted,” as it would force the closure of Accredo, a specialty drug dispensary that supplies drugs it says aren’t available anywhere else in the state.

06/15/2026

FTC settles lawsuit with Optum Rx, ending its campaign against the ‘big three’ PBMs.

The agency had been suing the three largest pharmacy benefit managers over their alleged control of insulin prices. It reached agreements with CVS’ Caremark and Cigna’s Express Scripts earlier this year.

06/12/2026

Humana exits $900M position in end-of-life provider Gentiva. The insurer has held a 40% minority state, stemming from its 2021 buyout of Kindred Healthcare.

The Kentucky-based insurance giant had owned a 40% stake in the hospice company, stemming from its 2021 acquisition of Kindred Healthcare. Humana said a “consortium of investors" is making the buy, but few details were revealed.

06/12/2026

For nurses, maybe COVID’s added burdens were a case of the last straw meeting that overburdened camel’s back. Emphasis on maybe.

Many or most who left their jobs in the early 2020s—whether for other nursing jobs or entirely new work—were thinking about doing so prior to the pandemic.

06/12/2026

House committee votes unanimously to block AI-enabled Medicare prior authorizations. If successful, an amendment would put an end to the WISeR pilot currently being used in six states.