Hospital and health system CEOs often enter their roles with strategic assumptions about what drives success. In practice, those assumptions are tested — and sometimes, leaders say, need to be reconsidered. Becker’s asked three leaders — Justin Harris, CEO of…

Revenue cycle leaders are facing a national coder shortage, intensifying payer complexity and tighter margins. In this environment, AI has become an operational necessity, not a strategic option. But the differentiator isn’t tool selection; it’s whether leaders have reframed workforce…

Health systems today operate under unprecedented pressure. Rising patient demand, workforce shortages, financial constraints, and policy shifts place new strain on hospital operations and drive more patients to seek care through the emergency department. Long wait times and ED boarding…

Community Health Systems, a for-profit hospital operator based in Franklin, Tenn., is seeking leaders for numerous C-suite roles across its facilities. The system operates 64 hospitals and more than 900 care sites across 13 states. Below are job listings active…

Nonprofit health system boards are governing larger, more complex enterprises than ever before, but a report published April 27 by The Governance Institute — part of NRC Health — argues that governance capability has not kept pace with that reality.…

Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C., has strengthened its healthcare firm with the addition of Susan Banks, Summer Martin and Rebecca Merrill as shareholders. The three attorneys bring experience in healthcare regulatory compliance, reimbursement strategy and complex transactions,…

UnitedHealthcare’s commercial business is planning more prior authorization rollbacks and wants to be seen as a better partner to the health systems it negotiates with, the unit’s CEO and CFO said at Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting in Chicago. Dan Kueter,…

The pressure on healthcare is not new. However, the industry’s ability to manage it requires leaders to rethink old strategies. This week offered three signals that the usual headwinds are evolving as payers face new threats, hospitals run out of…

The relationship between a CEO and CFO has always been an important factor in steering a hospital or health system in the right direction, but now many healthcare leaders say it’s never been more important for the two roles to…

Hospitals across the U.S. are struggling with rising emergency department (ED) demand, inpatient capacity constraints and longer lengths of stay. Leaders at University Health in San Antonio, Texas, say a predictive approach to patient flow helped them address those trends.…