AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim and PhRMA are asking to intervene in the hospital industry’s lawsuit seeking to block HRSA’s revised 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program, according to court filings in the U.S. District Court for the District of…
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A typical U.S. hospital stay lasts nearly five days and carries an estimated $16,353 in hospital expenses, according to an Oct. 5 report from LendingTree. Americans would need to work 435 hours, or nearly 11 weeks, to earn the equivalent…
Hospitals and health systems that uncover potential criminal fraud within their organizations now have one place to report it and still receive credit from two federal agencies. The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division and HHS’ Office of Inspector General…
From West Virginia University Health System acquiring a Pennsylvania system to Sanford Health acquiring North Memorial Health, here are 38 hospital mergers and acquisitions completed in 2026: 1. York (Maine) Hospital officially joined Portland-based MaineHealth Oct. 1. The hospital became…
At St. Louis-based Ascension, Executive Vice President and CFO Saurabh Tripathi said data analytics isn’t an afterthought in finance — it’s part of it. “Strategy and finance have to be intertwined,” Mr. Tripathi said on an episode of the “Becker’s…
The share of flu tests coming back positive rose from 3.9% to 5% in the week ending Oct. 10, the CDC’s first FluView report of the 2026-27 season shows. ED visits and outpatient visits for flu also climbed. Seasonal flu…
Confido Health is expanding beyond AI voice agents to build out an agentic AI operating system that can execute administrative workflows across a medical practice. The company secured a $12.5 million series A extension following its $10 million series A…
St. Louis-based WashU Medicine has named Madhusmita Misra, MD, chair of the Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Misra will also serve as pediatrician-in-chief at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, part of St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare, effective Jan. 4, 2027, according…
I sit through vendor demos constantly, and the word “agentic” gets attached to almost anything with a modern interface. If you cannot tell the difference in the room, you will buy a rules engine at an AI price. Then you…
Most private equity firms that buy U.S. short-term acute care hospitals sell them within five years, and PE-owned hospitals made up less than 4% of the market in 2024, according to a study published Sept. 10 in Health Affairs Scholar.…