As healthcare costs rise for patients, social media influencers are telling their followers to think twice before paying high medical bills, and in some cases not to pay them at all, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 6. In the…
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Medicaid members in the Bronx will be exempt from new federal work requirements when they take effect Jan. 1 because the county meets the law’s unemployment threshold, the New York State Department of Health said in statements to Becker’s. Under…
Hospital and health system executives are rethinking their organization’s efficiency in 2026 — and for many, that work started with the calendar. Six executives told Becker’s about the meetings they cut, compressed or merged this year, and a common thread…
U.S. Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., have proposed the AI Agent Accountability Act, a bipartisan bill that would make AI agent operators and developers criminally and civilly liable when their agents hack computer systems. Here are five…
Los Angeles County is building a system that would let every hospital in the county screen patients for financial aid before billing them, KFF Health News reported Oct. 8. About 800,000 county residents have medical bills they can’t pay, according…
Epic has spent the past several years pulling in many of the country’s largest health systems, with a large share of them leaving Oracle Health. Four more large systems, Adventist Health, Avera Health, ChristianaCare and Kaleida Health, went live on…
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has rebranded hospitals in Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky and Texas in 2026, bringing them under the CommonSpirit umbrella. Here is where the rebrands stand: Texas: St. Luke’s Health hospitals in the Houston area made the official transition to…
Barbara Joers, president and CEO of St. Paul, Minn.-based Gillette Children’s, will step down Jan. 1 after 13 years leading the pediatric specialty health system. Paula Montgomery, the system’s chief administrative officer and general counsel, began serving as active interim…
Oklahoma City-based OU Health has fired an employee who accessed 854 patients’ records without a legitimate business reason for about five months. The health system became aware of the employee’s unusual pattern of accessing patient information around June 7 and…
Health systems are learning that AI costs don’t end at deployment. Mayo Clinic’s chief AI implementation officer told Becker’s in August that the cost of maintaining AI systems has been “far higher” than expected. For some of the most experimental…