Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is airing one TV ad for his presidential run, and the focus is health insurance, The Washington Post's Paige Winfield Cunningham reports.

Last year, hospitals announced 121 CEO changes, down slightly from 2018, according to a report from executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Ellen Feinstein, RD, MHA, FACHE, serves as Vice President of Cancer Services at UChicago Medicine. 

Jason Greis, JD, serves as a Partner at McGuire Woods LLP. 

Robert M. Insoft, MD, FAAP, serves as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Quality and Medical Affairs at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island; Professor of Pediatrics at Brown University Alpert Medical School.

Helen Johnson, RN, MSN, NEA-BC, FACHE, serves as Chief Operating Officer at Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital. 

Jason Keeler, MHA, MBA, serves as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Tekisha King, MPA, is a Doctoral Student at Walden University. 

Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA, serves as President and Chief Executive Officer at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health.

Meng Wei, MBA, serves as System Director of Quality Informatics and Analytics at UCLA Health.

Politico reports that congressional leaders have a growing to-do list for healthcare and a "narrow" window to make progress before the 2020 election.

Below are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking CEOs during the past month.

Brad Smith will serve as director of CMS' Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and senior adviser to HHS Secretary Alex Azar for value-based transformation, HHS and CMS announced.

CEOs are more likely to drive a corporate social responsibility agenda when their political views are at odds with those of the U.S. president, according to a study published in Management Decision.

Americans are paying four times more than their Canadian counterparts for health administration costs, according to a study published Jan. 6 in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Major developments of the past year, like shareholder activism, cybersecurity and climate risks, will continue to shape governance trends in 2020, but there are a few other trends board directors should keep their eye on, according to Forbes contributor Michael Peregrine, a partner at the law firm McDermott Will & Emery.

Piedmont Healthcare, an 11-hospital system based in Atlanta, has quit the Georgia Hospital Association, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The following hospitals and health systems cut jobs or revealed plans to cut jobs in December and January:

Despite branching out through nearly 60 outpatient clinics, the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics in Iowa City — which includes the only comprehensive university medical center in the state — by and large remains a healthcare destination.

Healthcare issues such as surprise billing and Medicaid payments were consistently part of the nation's legislative news cycle last year.