1. 30 Alabama hospitals in jeopardy as pandemic pressures persist  Full story

2. Tampa General plans $550M expansion  Full story

3. Michigan physician convicted in $100M healthcare fraud case  Full story

4. Getting paid shouldn't be complicated. Learn how to simplify reimbursements + overcome denials.

5. FDA decision means Pfizer boosters for healthcare workers: 5 things to know  Full story

6. World's top 5 hospitals in 10 specialties, ranked by Newsweek  Full story

7. Aspirus to replace 52-year-old Michigan hospital  Full story

8. 20 insurers received half of $9.2B in suspicious Medicare payments, feds report  Full story

9. ASCs are seeing record patient volumes, but that doesn't mean improvements should stop. Here's a strategic way to take the patient experience one step further.

10. Cleveland Clinic shares strategy, roadblocks to complying with CMS price transparency rule  Full story

11. New York hospital slated for closure goes up for sale  Full story 

12. Henry Ford Health goes international with nurse recruiting  Full story 

13. The patient journey reimagined — Click here and learn how to build something new.

14. Less than 5% of US population accounts for 50% of healthcare spending: study  Full story 

15. Daily COVID-19 stats, state-by-state:

• Test positivity rates
• Population fully vaccinated
• Vaccines administered
• Hospitalizations
• Death rates 

Becker's Learning Opportunities

1. Beat slow payer responses and shrinking margins with a new denial strategy. Read about Yale New Haven's here. 

2. The health equity actions CEOs take should effect change now and after their tenure. Start planning here.

3. Patients expect a simple way to access all of a health system's offerings. Here's the solution.