Amazon on Wednesday announced it will offer One Medical memberships to Amazon Prime members for an additional $9 per month on top of their $99 per year Prime subscription, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from the District of Columbia, Tennessee, and Washington.

• District of Columbia: HHS' Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center has issued an alert about a new ransomware threat to the healthcare sector known as BlackSuit, which could be responsible for an October attack against an organization that provides medical scans and radiology services for nearly 1,000 hospitals and health systems in the United States and caused the company to shut down computer services and turn patients away. John Riggi, national advisor for cybersecurity and risk for the American Hospital Association, said the identified indicators of BlackSuit "should be promptly entered into network defensive and threat-hunting tools." (AHA News, 11/9)
• Tennessee: The Justice Department last week issued a petition asking the Supreme Court to reverse Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors and argued that any delay in review would endanger youths who are being denied or will be denied critical medical care. The Justice Department argued that Tennessee's ban — which states that health providers cannot "perform or offer to perform" any sort of gender-affirming care to trans minors — violates the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. "If these laws are allowed to go into effect, transgender adolescents in large swaths of the country will lose access to medically necessary care, resulting in 'predictable and significant harms' like escalating distress, anxiety, and suicidality," the Justice Department wrote in its petition. (Bettelheim, Axios, 11/6)
• Washington: Amazon on Wednesday announced it will be offering One Medical memberships to Amazon Prime members for an additional $9 per month on top of their $99 per year Prime subscription. Prime members will also be able to add up to five additional family members for $6 per month, and membership will include unlimited 24/7 virtual services and online scheduling for same- or next-day appointments at more than 200 One Medical locations. (Reed, Axios, 11/8; O'Donovan, Washington Post, 11/8)