Hospital Price Transparency Crackdown: The White House warned 24 Southern California hospitals over missing public pricing data, with potential $2M fines looming. Medicaid & Fraud Enforcement: Indiana will use AI (Oracle software) to find Medicaid fraud, while federal authorities charged four people in New Hampshire in a nationwide healthcare fraud probe. Medical Debt Relief: Michigan will erase $74M in medical debt for 71,871 residents, following earlier rounds of forgiveness. Rural Care Research: TMF Health Quality Institute donated $250,000 to TORCH Foundation to study how rural hospitals affect health outcomes in Texas. Regulatory Reform (India): India decriminalised minor procedural non-compliances for clinical establishments and added an appeal process, aiming to cut compliance burden while keeping patient safety. Healthcare Access & Nutrition: ZOIA Healthcare and Meta Healthcare launched an exclusive U.S. partnership to expand ready-to-use nutrition solutions for Maple Syrup Urine Disease. Tech & Trials: Vivani Medical won ethics approval to start SLIM-1, a Phase 1 semaglutide implant trial in Australia. Heat Stress on NHS (UK): England hospitals declared critical incidents as extreme heat disrupted machines, IT, and cooling systems, worsening overcrowding and dehydration cases. Corporate Moves in MedTech/Pharma: H.B. Fuller agreed to buy the UK’s Advanced Medical Solutions for about $942M, and Agilent completed its acquisition of Biocare Medical.