Academic Medical Centers

For years, the dominant model for health system technology relationships followed a predictable arc. A vendor sold a product, supported an implementation, and largely exited. Whether the tool delivered on its original promise became the health system’s problem to work…

Health systems are putting more capital into ASCs in 2026, through billion-dollar acquisitions, multisite joint ventures and single-site builds. The documented migration of higher-acuity cases to the outpatient setting is significant, and ASC market projections show that growth is only…

As mergers and acquisitions take the final months of 2026 by storm, two academic health systems recently moved to acquire community hospitals.  Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Health System acquired Greensburg, Pa.-based Independence Health System Oct. 1. The acquisition brought five hospitals…

Revenue cycle has reached an interesting point in its automation journey. The question is no longer whether technology can do meaningful work. Increasingly, it can. The harder question is whether automating more individual tasks is actually making the revenue cycle…

Most revenue cycle teams measure denials management the same way: overturn rate and dollars recovered. Those numbers matter, and a team that moves them is doing real work. But both are lagging indicators. They tell you what you won back—not…

Hospital outpatient departments were paid an average of 102% more per unit than physician offices for the same physician-administered medications, a premium that adds up to about $12.7 billion a year in employer health spending, according to new research from…

The University of Oklahoma’s Oklahoma City health campus will be renamed after a $150 million gift from energy executive Harold Hamm, the largest single gift in the university’s history, according to a Sept. 22 news release shared with Becker’s. The…

Americans already wait weeks — and in some communities, months — to see a physician. At the very moment our nation needs more doctors, federal policy may be making it more difficult for talented young people to become one. New federal…

The extraordinary turbulence surrounding AI security is likely to have a profound impact on board governance of health care companies, both as to its overarching agenda and to director oversight obligations. This, given the extensive commitment by many such companies to AI…

Reginald Munden, MD, DMD, will step down as chair of the Department of Radiology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston at the end of December 2026. Madelene Lewis, MD, will succeed him as department chair effective Jan.…