University of Chicago Medicine filed a certificate of need application Sept. 28 with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board, moving forward with plans to build a nearly $328 million clinical laboratory in the city’s Washington Park neighborhood. The…
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Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state disaster emergency Oct. 5 in response to a growing measles outbreak in rural New York and neighboring states. The executive order lets the state respond more quickly and expands who can administer measles vaccines…
Revenue cycle management company Knowtion Health has named Steven Huddleston CEO. Mr. Huddleston brings more than 25 years of experience in healthcare finance, strategy and revenue cycle leadership, according to an Oct. 6 company news release. He spent more than…
Plenful, the leading AI automation platform for pharmacy teams, is ready with Rebate Intelligence. The solution gives covered entities an automated way to submit and reconcile rebates under the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) revised 340B Rebate Model Pilot…
With fiscal year 2026 results now in for many U.S. health systems, three of four large nonprofit organizations improved their operating performance this year. Trinity Health swung to a $281 million operating gain from a $12.2 million loss in fiscal…
Utilization management sits between clinical care and the revenue cycle, and at most health systems it is still largely manual: status determinations, concurrent authorizations sent by fax, appeals that drag on for 60 to 90 days. Sharon Kelley — former…
Average starting salaries for certified registered nurse anesthetists fell about 1% year over year, to $286,250, according to a Sept. 16 white paper from AMN Healthcare. The “2026 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” report includes data from…
New York has the lowest Parkinson’s disease death rate, at 6.1 deaths per 100,000 people, while Utah has the highest, at 13.2, the CDC found. The CDC calculated mortality rates from Alzheimer’s disease in every state. Mortality rate is the…
In Part 2 of this two-part episode, Mark Clement, the former president and CEO of TriHealth, discusses the healthcare bets that have paid off, the shift toward proactive and value-based care and the need to rebuild trust in healthcare. He…
In this episode, Chris Allen, CFO, UChicago Medicine, discusses his priorities for strengthening financial operations, supporting system growth, modernizing revenue cycle processes, and developing responsible AI governance while building a resilient finance team. Learn more about relentlessly raising RCM yield…