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…
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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. 12, 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.…
Fifty-six percent of employer clients of “Big Three” pharmacy benefit managers — CVS Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx — are thinking about switching in the next one to three years. The 2026 “Pulse of the Purchaser”…
U.S. News & World Report released its debut ratings Aug. 12 for the best GLP-1 telehealth platforms, its first evaluation of the online companies prescribing brand-name weight loss drugs. The media company rated 20 platforms offering FDA-approved, brand-name GLP-1 medications,…
Ascension Saint Thomas in Nashville, Tenn., has rescheduled some elective surgeries and said it could be forced to cancel or delay additional cases because of shortages of blood products. Platelets are a particular concern at Saint Thomas, according to an…