McLeod Health, based in Florence, S.C., has agreed to a $600,000 settlement in a lawsuit brought by employees who claimed that the network deducted pay for meal breaks they were unable to take due to a heavy workload.

U.S. physicians get three times as many EHR messages as their counterparts in other countries but could cut back on them by not copying their colleagues on communications, the American Medical Association reported.

Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System plans to roll out an IT platform that automates repetitive administrative tasks across its 17 hospitals.

Health system CIOs have a lot to be thankful for, from advancements in artificial intelligence to the colleagues who help them put technology into the hands of clinicians.

The Ascension Parish Council voted to replace the board of Donaldsonville, La.-based Prevost Memorial Hospital on Nov. 21 after raising concerns about the board's activity over the last 10 years, according to The Advocate.

Executives at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai told Becker's that the health system is leaning into large language models and artificial intelligence tools as a way to fight clinician burnout.

More than 2,400 nurses at three HCA Healthcare hospitals in Southern California are set to launch a five-day strike Nov. 22 in the sixth month of contract negotiations. 

Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health has introduced a telemedicine service utilizing asynchronous messaging, enabling patients to engage in real-time conversations with Lee Health physicians for a fee of $29 per visit.

Several hospitals in Texas have filed for bankruptcy or closed since the start of 2022.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit recently reorganized its operations by consolidating its eight operating divisions into five regions. 

Patients who contracted COVID-19 in early 2020 and later got long COVID have a 76% chance of becoming reinfected, according to a study published Nov. 21 in The Lancet. 

COVID-19 hospitalizations are ticking back up in the U.S. after more than two months of mostly trending downward or remaining flat, according to the latest available data from the CDC. 

Lion Star Nacogdoches (Texas) Hospital, the group that operates Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Northern District of Texas, according to The Daily Sentinel. 

Phoenix-based Valleywise Health is pushing back the opening of its $603 million flagship hospital by six months as the health system deals with labor shortages and issues in the supply chain, Phoenix Business Journal reported Nov. 22.

From two pharmacy owners and a physician convicted in a $145 million scheme to two NBA convicted for their roles in a scheme to defraud the league's healthcare plan, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker's has reported on since Oct. 31: 

As nurse practitioners surge to 385,000 strong in the U.S., the growing profession is establishing itself as an even more prominent role in healthcare hierarchies. Simultaneously, the American Medical Association anticipates a looming shortage of 100,000 physicians in the next decade. So how will the growth of one and the shrinking of the other influence hospital dynamics?

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau sent more than 60,000 debt collection complaints in 2022, and 8,500 (15%) of those were about attempts to collect a medical bill, according to the agency's annual Fair Debt Collection Practices Act report released in November. 

Emmett Shear led OpenAI for three days, between founder Sam Altman's exit from and return to the role. It was a 72-hour tenure for a CEO who is ambivalent about the role's future. 

Lowville, N.Y.-based Lewis County Health System is close to receiving a reimbursement for the county that could help reopen its maternity ward, CBS affiliate WWNY reported Nov. 21.  

In October, Renton, Wash.-based Providence's Digital Innovation Group incubated its fourth technology, Praia Health, a platform-as-a-service technology for health systems to engage and re-engage consumers for a more personalized care journey.