1. Billionaire sells $109M of CHS stock  Full story

2. University Hospitals to grow to 22 hospitals  Full story

3. Owner of Texas hospice chain gets 20 years in prison for $150M fraud  Full story

4. Peer-led panels explore financial viability, expanded access, and actionable data. View now.

5. Tenet to sell its 87 urgent care centers to FastMed  Full story

6. Hospitals boost security to safeguard COVID-19 vaccines  Full story

7. Dallas hospital investigating sock monkey gifts to employees  Full story

8. 'There are bound to be loopholes': Americans may face surprise bills with COVID-19 vaccination  Full story

9. What are the most important features of a hospital employee health plan? Click here to weigh in.

10. Iowa hospitals seek to combine, get more federal funding  Full story

11. Employers can require COVID-19 vaccine, EEOC says  Full story 

12. America's healthiest, unhealthiest states for 2020  Full story 

13. 3 Must Reads: 

• What will be the pandemic's biggest effects in the years to come? Click here to learn what healthcare leaders think.
• The fight against healthcare turnover — A 5-chapter guide to improve retention and staff hard-to-fill positions. Click here to read the guide.
• What can CFOs learn from an analysis of more than 100M hospital transactions? Click here to read the 2020 Denials Index.

14. 4 health systems expanding overseas  Full story 

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

• Test positivity rates + new cases 
• Hospitalizations
• Where the virus is spreading fastest, slowest
• Death rates

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