2+ hour, 25+ min ago  (241+ words) Universal Health Services is looking to acquire Talkspace, among other updates. Welcome back to Signed and Scrubbed, a monthly roundup of hospital deals, developments, and bankruptcies. Here's your March 2026 roundup. Baptist Memorial Health Care. The 129-bed Paragould-based Arkansas Methodist Medical…...

19+ hour, 47+ min ago  (572+ words) Beneficiaries are bearing the burden of overpayments. Overpayments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans has been a widely known issue for years. But overpayments don't just raise spending in MA'they lead to higher spending in traditional Medicare as well, according to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (727+ words) CMS and Elevance are playing a game of Risk. In a Feb. 27 letter, the federal regulator threatened sanctions that would be effective March 31including freezing new Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan enrollmentin response to the payer's alleged "substantial and persistent…...