Kansas City, Kan.-based The University of Kansas Health System will discontinue pediatric ICU services amid low patient volumes and increased demand for inpatient beds from newborns and adults. Only six of the health system’s 1,621 licensed beds are designated for…
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Elevance Health is bringing its out-of-network provider penalty policy to New York on July 1, continuing a state-by-state expansion that has drawn legislative backlash and opposition from hospitals and physician groups. Under the policy, in-network facilities in New York that…
Jeffrey Cohen, MD, has spent four decades in healthcare. For much of that time, describing patients as consumers was heresy. Not anymore. “If somebody had talked about consumerism in healthcare when I was starting out and when I was training,…
Utah ranked No. 1 and Alaska ranked last in WalletHub’s 2026 list of the best states for working from home. The personal finance website compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across two dimensions: work environment and living…
Hackers demand an average of $18.2 million after a healthcare ransomware attack, nearly six times more than the next-closest industry, according to a BakerHostetler analysis. Here are seven more things to know from the annual Data Security Incident Response Report,…
Sheridan (Wyo.) Memorial Hospital seeking a potential transition to the critical access hospital designation, NPR affiliate Wyoming Public Media reported April 3. CEO Mike McCafferty said that roughly 66% of the hospital’s patients are on public insurance such as Medicare…
Gritman Medical Center in Moscow, Idaho, has resumed normal operations across its offices and clinics after a cybersecurity incident forced widespread closures, though some phone outages persist at rural locations. All Gritman offices and clinics reopened on regular schedules April…
Conway (Ark.) Regional Medical Center evacuated its emergency department after a cooling tower on a lower level roof caught fire. The Conway Fire Department was called to the fire at 6:02 a.m. April 5, according to a hospital statement posted…
Ten hospitals and health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle management expertise. Note: This is not an exhaustive list. Listings were compiled from job-seeker sites. 1. Baptist Health, based in Little Rock, Ark., seeks a revenue integrity auditor. …
Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems is doubling down on performance-based compensation for its top executives, tying the majority of pay to financial and operational results, according to a proxy report filed April 2 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kevin…