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Oct. 15 — when active-duty military members could miss a paycheck — is seen by some lawmakers as the next real deadline for action in the federal government shutdown fight as Democratic and Republican leaders remain at odds over a…
Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based Catholic Health has shared plans, pending state approval, to integrate its Port Jefferson, N.Y.-based St. Charles Hospital under West Islip, N.Y.-based Good Samaritan University Hospital on July 1, a system spokesperson said in an Oct. 6 statement…
The federal government shutdown will stretch into a second week after Senate Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on competing funding bills Oct. 3, according to The Hill. The standoff is already disrupting federal operations — including at CMS —…
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health added 90 ambulatory care sites over the past two fiscal years, including 34 across nine states in 2025. “At this point we’re not focused on hospital acquisitions,” CommonSpirit CEO Wright Lassiter III said on an Oct. 1…
Physician practice expense growth is driving additional investment across the U.S., according to Strata. The analytics firm surveyed more than 135,000 physicians and 1,850 hospitals to gather financial data every month. Expenses per physician practice have been climbing over the…
Adventist Health Columbia Gorge in The Dalles, Ore., plans to reduce its inpatient bed count by nearly half and transition to critical access hospital status to “align our designation with patient demand,” a spokesperson for the health system told Becker’s.…
Firearm-related injuries drove $7.7 billion in healthcare spending over six years, with $1.6 billion attributable to 2021 alone, according to a study published in JAMA Health Forum on Sept. 26. More than half the costs were billed to Medicaid. The…
Powell (Wyo.) Valley Healthcare plans to end oncology services and close its internal medicine clinic in Cody within the next two to three months, the Buffalo Bulletin reported Sept. 30. Seven employees will be laid off as part of the…
CMS has outlined the activities that will and won’t continue during the federal government shutdown. The federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. Oct. 1 after lawmakers failed to reach a spending deal. CMS is retaining 53% of its staff,…
Waystar has completed its $1.25 billion acquisition of AI-powered revenue cycle management company Iodine Software. Iodine joins Waystar with a client base of more than 1,000 hospitals and health systems, expanding Waystar’s total addressable market by more than 15%, according…