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Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is notifying more than 15,000 patients and medical residents that an unauthorized party accessed its IT systems Aug. 12 and copied files containing their personal information. The breach affected 15,096 Texans, according to a filing posted…

Revenue cycle leaders are raising concerns about Elevance Health’s new site-of-care billing requirements, and some patients are taking insurance denials straight to payer CEOs. Here are 10 revenue cycle updates that Becker’s reported in October:  1. Forty percent of providers…

Buffalo, N.Y., is the best city for veterans’ healthcare, while Washington, D.C., ranked last, according to a Nov. 2 ranking from personal finance website WalletHub.  The ranking compared the 100 most populated U.S. cities across 19 metrics focused on employment,…

Madison, Wis.-based UW Health completed its acquisition of Marshfield Medical Center-Beaver Dam (Wis.) from Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System, part of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health, on Nov. 1.  The campus is now UW Health Beaver Dam Hospital and Clinics,…

Brian Whitfield has resigned as CEO of McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Okla. The hospital’s board of trustees accepted the resignation Oct. 30, according to a Facebook post from the hospital. CFO Kena Allen, who has been with the hospital…

Chronic disease can develop for years before diagnosis, yet many risk calculators rely on decades-old patient cohorts and a single snapshot of a patient’s health. Researchers at Meir Medical Center, part of Clalit Health Services, retrained cardiovascular and Type 2…

Nov 9, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST

The CDC has now confirmed 4,852 measles cases so far in 2026, the highest yearly total in 35 years, CIDRAP reported Oct. 31. Here are the most recent updates in the measles and Ebola outbreaks. Measles 1. The CDC has…

Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association plan to begin an open-ended strike Nov. 12 at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital, part of Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham. The union, which represents more than 4,000 Brigham nurses, issued a 10-day strike…

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