Today's Top 20 Healthcare News Articles
  1. How CMS is digitizing prior authorizations to save $15B

    CMS is aiming to solve one of healthcare's most perplexing — and time-consuming — issues: the dreaded prior authorization.
  2. Intermountain posts $137M operating income, 0.9% margin

    Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health posted an operating income of $137 million (0.9% margin) in 2023, improving slightly on the $121 million gain (0.9% margin) reported the previous year. 
  3. Providence debt collector ordered to pay $827K for rights violations

    A Washington judge ordered a debt collection agency hired by Renton, Wash.-based Providence to pay $827,000 for violating patients' medical debt collection rights more than 82,000 times. 

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  1. Healthcare workers included in new $6B student loan relief

    The Biden-Harris Administration announced March 21 the release of an additional $5.8 billion in student loan debt relief for 77,700 public service workers, including those in healthcare.  
  2. The systems, hospitals with the most top physicians, per Castle Connelly

    Castle Connolly released its 2024 accolades, recognizing health systems and hospitals that have the most top physicians.
  3. AdventHealth plans $254M hospital amid HCA turf war

    Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth has selected a location for its new $254 million community hospital in North Carolina, though the system is still awaiting the resolution of an appeal filed by Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health.
  4. Norton aims to raise $200M

    Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare and Norton Children's launched the "Just Imagine" campaign March 20 to raise millions in support of health equity and expanding specialty care.

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  1. New York system names new CEO

    The board of directors for Cooperstown, N.Y.-based Bassett Healthcare Network unanimously voted to promote Staci Thompson from interim to permanent president and CEO.
  2. Stanford lightens cognitive EHR burden for physicians

    Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care researchers found that using AI in the EHR to assist clinicians with answering patient messages has been able to reduce clerical burden and lower feelings of burnout.
  3. NIH sunsets COVID treatment guidance

    Four years after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, the National Institutes of Health is sunsetting its COVID-19 treatment guidelines, NPR reported March 19. 
  4. Albertsons joins Mark Cuban's pharmacy network

    Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. expanded its pharmacy network March 20 with a deal with grocery chain Albertsons, growing its drug discount offering by another thousand-plus locations. 

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  1. New gene therapy to cost $4.25M — the highest drug price in US

    The most expensive drug in the U.S. is now Lenmeldy, a $4.25 million gene therapy the FDA approved March 18 for children with a rare genetic disease. 
  2. 2 in custody after Idaho hospital shooting: Police

    Police have arrested two men who are suspects in a coordinated attack March 20 to facilitate the escape of a prison inmate at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. Three correctional officers were shot in the incident. 
  3. Nashville General Hospital names chief revenue officer

    Nashville (Tenn.) General Hospital has named Kemberly Blackledge, DSc, chief revenue cycle officer. 
  4. The financial losses for hospitals stemming from Change attack: 5 numbers to know

    Hospitals, pharmacies and medical groups nationwide are continuing their efforts to recover from the cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group's Change Healthcare in February.
  5. 20 hospitals, health systems cutting jobs

    A number of hospitals and health systems are reducing their workforces or jobs due to financial and operational challenges. 
  6. Sale of 2 Rhode Island hospitals remains in limbo

    The Rhode Island attorney general and state department of health are still reviewing the Centurion Foundation's application to purchase Providence, R.I.-based CharterCare Health Partners, part of Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings, and its two Rhode Island hospitals for $193 million. 
  7. CEO exits Utah hospital amid license sanction

    Jim Hess is no longer CEO of Midvale, Utah-based Highland Ridge Hospital as the psychiatric facility risks losing its license.
  8. County health rankings lose their order

    The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in Madison released their 2024 county health assessments — but this time, without an ordinal ranking. 
  9. Providence taps philanthropy CFO for South division

    Renton, Wash.-based Providence has named Alice Galstian CFO for philanthropy in its South division, effective March 25.

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