The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) released a statement this week about the recently finalized tariffs on $50 billion worth of products imported from China and the June 20 Senate Finance Committee hearing held with U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross about the impact of those tariffs.

The Kaiser Family Foundation released an issue brief June 22 that projected total Medicare spending to top $1 trillion by 2026, up from a total of $702 billion last year, according to Congressional Budget Office and CMS data.

Calico, a biotech firm backed by Google, announced a $1 billion extension to its partnership with AbbVie. Now with $2.5 billion in funding, the venture is aimed at finding cures for aging-related diseases, such as neurodegeneration and cancer.

Emphasize program integrity in audits of state claims for federal match funds and medical loss ratios (MLRs). CMS will audit some states based on clinical services spending and quality improvements.

The Senate health committee has announced a series of hearings addressing how healthcare systems can reduce costs in America.

Individuals from Mississippi were indicted for defrauding insurance companies for $200 million with high-priced compounded formulations and bribing providers—including dentists, physicians and nurse practitioners—to prescribe those medications to patients they never examined.

Most American nurses put their patients’ health and safety above their own, potentially impacting patient care, one Pennsylvania nurse wrote in the Journal of Radiology Nursing this month.

Authors of a June 26 editorial in Annals of Internal Medicine advocated for a standard definition of "overdiagnosis" regarding cancer screenings, arguing poor understanding of the term is a threat that exposes patients to unnecessary treatments.