Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has announced an agreement with U.S. Anesthesia Partners that resolves the private equity-backed company's alleged anticompetitive business practices that drove up prices for consumers receiving surgical anesthesia services. 

Some organizations are exploring the benefits of a shortened workweek, while others — often high-profile companies — are taking a hard lean the other way. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare revealed its plans for the 2024 Executive Officer Performance Excellence Program in a Feb. 26 Form 8-K filed with the SEC.

Hospitals and health systems reported 11 CEO changes last month, marking a 52% decrease from the same month in 2023. 

UnitedHealth Group estimates 90% of the 70,000-plus pharmacies in the U.S. using Change Healthcare's platform have modified electronic claims processing to mitigate effects of the cybersecurity incident that hit the company last week.

CEOWorld Magazine has released its latest list of "World's Most Influential CEOs And Business Executives," and multiple healthcare leaders based in the U.S. are on the list. 

Fremont, Calif., is the happiest city in the U.S. and Detroit is the least happy, according to an analysis released Feb. 27 by personal finance website WalletHub. 

Cleveland-based MetroHealth System and RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit debt relief service, have shared an agreement that will help erase just over $200 million in medical debt for 290,761 Northeast Ohio patients.

Fitch Ratings has downgraded Burlington, Mass.-based Tufts Medicine from a "BBB" to a "BBB-" credit rating. 

The FDA is recalling additional saline and sterile water products made by Nurse Assist after receiving reports of adverse events.

Medical City Arlington (Texas) has named Nathan Tindall CFO. 

Florida lawmakers are nearing full passage of "Live Healthy," a package of healthcare bils debuted late last year designed to expand the healthcare workforce, address emergency room crowding, and create a loan program for healthcare innovators. 

Marcel van den Brink, MD, PhD, started his career in "the real Holland with the windmills, tulip fields and all that good stuff." But he left all of it behind in the late 1980s to complete his oncology training in the United States.

Three prisoners attempted to escape police custody after being treated at hospitals across the country — all within the same 24 hours. 

Escondido, Calif.-based Palomar Health is proposing a structural reorganization under which health system executives would be employed by a nonprofit, outside management organization rather than a public entity. 

The BlackCat ransomware gang is claiming responsibility for an attack on Change Healthcare, TheRegister reported Feb. 26.  

Over the past few years, much of the discourse on supporting the well-being of healthcare workers has focused on nurses and front-line teams — and rightfully so, as many nurses continue to report burnout stemming from their work environment. But to ensure efforts meant to support bedside nurses live up to their full potential, hospitals and health systems should be placing an equal focus on nurse managers, leaders say. 

The University of Chicago Medicine is growing its neuroscience partnership with Shanghai Blue Cross Brain Hospital in China. 

For academic health systems, a strong ranking is more than an affirmation — it's a magnet for top talent and a catalyst for future developments, according to Jakub Tolar, MD, PhD, dean of the Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota Medical School and its vice president for clinical affairs.

Hospital margins jumped 3.8 percentage points in January over 2023, a promising start to the year, according to data from Syntellis, part of Strata.