Mark Cuban sees two paths to fixing healthcare economics: Break up the largest vertically integrated insurers, or teach the employers who fund most private coverage to act like real buyers. The co-founder of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. outlined…
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When seven rural hospitals decided to pursue federal rural health transformation funding together, the first step was getting rivals into the same room. “We left all our competition at the door, and in the room, we began to brainstorm: How…
While former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill is often credited with saying, “All politics is local,” for Damond Boatwright, CEO of Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System, the saying matters four times as much when it comes to healthcare.…
When Albert Wright Jr., PharmD, became CEO of Morgantown-based WVU Medicine in 2014, the system had five hospitals. It now has 31 across four states, and its largest deal yet just took it into Pittsburgh’s suburbs. That reach is deliberate,…
Renton, Wash.-based Providence is owed $1 billion by Medicare Advantage plans. About $600 million of it is from this year alone, according to President and CEO Erik Wexler, and he wants Congress to make payers pay faster. Mr. Wexler is…
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After 35 years working in the same children’s health system — including 29 at the helm — Kimberly Chavalas Cripe “can’t wait” to meet her successor. Whenever that might be. Ms. Cripe arrived at Orange, Calif.-based Children’s Hospital of Orange…
Ten years ago, when healthcare leaders spoke about quality, the conversation centered largely on clinical outcomes, safety indicators and operational efficiency. Those priorities remain foundational. But what has fundamentally shifted over the past decade is our understanding of what defines…
Amy Hart, CEO of Cuyuna Regional Medical Center in Crosby, Minn., understands as well as anyone in her position that varied perspectives are valuable in leadership — and that it can be lonely at the top. In that vein, she…
The way health systems are organized is being tested as reimbursement, workforce and technology pressures reshape what it takes to succeed. Leaders are rethinking how their organizations are built, not just what they deliver. Becker’s asked CEOs, CFOs and other…
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…