Morning Headlines 12/29/25
How One Father Created an Organ Empire
The National Kidney Registry, which matches donors to recipients, pays millions to its technologist founder’s companies.
Medicare’s prior authorization has doctors on edge
Providers express uncertainty about how to submit prior authorization requests under traditional Medicare’s AI-powered treatment reviews, which launch as a six-state pilot project on January 1 for 17 treatments.
NHS England tech provider reveals data breach – DXS International hit by ransomware
A ransomware hacker claims to have stolen 300 GB of company data from NHS technology supplier DXS International.
RE NEJM piece: He shouldn’t future-conditional with “they can retreat, which might mean abdicating medicine’s broad public role, perhaps in…