In this episode, Alan Condon, Editor-in-Chief at Becker’s Healthcare, discusses the surge in health system M&A, including the proposed Intermountain Health and AdventHealth joint venture in Colorado and Salem Health’s merger with Santiam Memorial Hospital in Oregon. He also explores…
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The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to expand its contract with Oracle Health past its current ceiling, already near $10 billion, and extend the deal by three years, FedScoop reported Aug. 12. VA reached its contract ceiling sooner than planned…
Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network and UnitedHealthcare have automated claim status updates for 88% of the claims exchanged between the two organizations, using Epic’s Payer Platform, according to Epic’s newly released 2026-2027 Almanac. The two organizations turned on…
Hospital and health system merger and acquisition activity slowed to its lowest level in more than a decade in 2025 as boards waited out federal policy fights. It came back fast. Twenty-two transactions were announced in the first quarter of…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak has become the fastest-spreading on record, with the death toll surpassing 2,000 as the rare Bundibugyo strain outpaces the response. Here are eight notes: 1. The toll. As of Aug. 11, the…
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health named Scott Peek president of its Peaks Region, effective Aug. 16. Mr. Peek will oversee business and clinical operations across the region’s markets in Colorado, Montana, Eastern Wyoming and New Mexico, according to an Aug.…
In this episode, Eddie Wilson, Managing Director at Deloitte, and Yuchen Chen, Associate Vice President at Deloitte, discuss how healthcare organizations can identify and address patient leakage through data, analytics, and improved access strategies. They also explore how stronger network…
Participation in mandatory value-based payment programs from CMS is associated with significantly higher annual administrative costs for hospitals, according to a study published Aug. 7 in JAMA Health Forum. Researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence,…
Jason Craig, most recently a regional vice president at St. Louis-based SSM Health, was named executive vice president of administration and operations at Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health, according to an Aug. 12 news release shared with Becker’s. Mr. Craig started…
HHS is creating a new pathway to evaluate which conditions should be added to the national newborn screening panel as part of a broader effort to modernize a review process that officials say has lagged behind advances in genetic medicine.…