Ask a Revenue Cycle Leader is a new series featuring insights from health system and hospital revenue cycle executives nationwide. Becker’s poses questions on the most pressing issues in healthcare finance — from payer relations and automation to workforce and…
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The average starting salary for nurse practitioners held at $180,000 in 2025-26, unchanged from the year before, according to a Sept. 16 white paper from AMN Healthcare. The flat year follows two straight years of growth. Average NP starting pay…
Health systems are strengthening their technology leadership benches, appointing new executives to lead areas like cybersecurity, innovation, digital platforms and enterprise systems. Here are the latest health IT leadership moves at hospitals and health systems, as reported by Becker’s since…
Supply savings work tends to end at the contract. Price is negotiated, the line item improves and the program reports a win. Underneath that win, two physicians perform the same procedure and consume different supplies at different cost. Reimbursement does…
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obesity, with a phase 2 trial finding that the amylin analogue petrelintide reduced body weight by up to 10.7% through week 42, according to a study published Sept. 29 in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. Here are five things to…
The Department of Veterans Affairs is deploying AI-based enhancements to its pharmacy module alongside the rollout of its modernized EHR, according to an Oct. 5 GovCIO Media & Research report. The module includes an AI transcription agent to help clinical…
Vail (Colo.) Health rolled out Epic on Oct. 3, bringing records from its providers and services into a shared EHR system. Vail Health partnered with UCHealth through the Epic Community Connect program to bring the EHR to its rural mountain…
BD has entered a partnership with the U.S. government to expand domestic manufacturing and supply chain capacity for essential medical consumables. The company intends to invest $19 billion in the U.S. over several years, including $3 billion toward U.S. manufacturing…
Heart failure contributed to 452,573 U.S. deaths in 2023, a new peak, and the disease is increasingly affecting younger adults, a new Heart Failure Society of America report found. The “HF Stats 2026: An Updated Report on Heart Failure Epidemiology…
Leadership changes reported by Becker’s in 2026 show some health systems adding digital oversight, data analytics and hospital administration to CIO portfolios, while one search explicitly assigns AI governance to the next IT leader. The changes take different forms. Some…