The University of Texas at Austin shared plans Oct. 27 for UT Dell Medical Center, set to open in 2030, as it introduced UT Dell Medicine, its academic health system. UT Dell Medicine replaces the UT Health Austin name, which…
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Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan, Ill., is under review by the Illinois Department of Public Health to determine whether it can keep its level 2 trauma center designation after its contracted anesthesia group suspended services over a missed payment,…
As a primary care physician who also is a hospital CEO, Susan Ehrlich, MD, occupies rare air. According to a 2025 McKinsey survey, only about 15% of CEOs across healthcare organizations have clinical backgrounds; that figure includes health systems and…
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…
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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…