Ascension to Buy Tennessee Health System for Nearly $1B
Ascension is set to acquire Williamson Health, a county-owned health system in Tennessee, in a deal worth nearly $1 billion. Ascension’s offer beat out bids from HCA Healthcare and Optum.
Elevance Sues CMS Over Star Ratings, Seeks Same Recalculation Applied to Clover
Elevance filed a lawsuit last week against the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, alleging that CMS unlawfully refused to recalculate Elevance's 2026 Medicare Advantage Star Ratings on the same basis that it recently recalculated Clover Health's ratings after a court ruling.
Vertex Pharma’s Growth Strategy Leads to Its Biggest-Ever M&A Deal
Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ acquisition of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals values the company at about $10 billion. Crinetics’s Palsonify could become a new standard of care therapy for acromegaly and the biotech also brings other drugs in various stages of development for endocrine disorders, a new therapeutic area for Vertex.
The AI Use Case That Healthcare is Overlooking
AI performs best where a problem is well-defined, data-intensive, repetitive and operates at a scale that exceeds human tracking capacity. The supply chain hits all four.
The Foundation Is Built — Now We Must Secure the Future of Interoperability
Patients, providers, and innovators all benefit from secure, trusted, nationwide data exchange. But this trust cannot sustain itself on fragmented governance or competitive enforcement dynamics.