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A House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing Sept. 15 examined more than a dozen bills aimed at reforming Medicare physician payment and strengthening healthcare cybersecurity. Much of the hearing centered on a shared concern raised by…
In this episode, Sarah McGoldrick, Executive Director of Finance at Singing River Health System, joins the podcast to discuss evolving payer changes and their impact on the revenue cycle. She also shares insights on opportunities for growth and the introduction…
The typical healthcare organization managed 100 physician and provider searches in 2025, down from a peak of 115 in 2023, according to the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment’s annual benchmarking report. The report, released Sept. 16, draws on…
St. Louis-based Ascension narrowed its reported operating loss by $371 million in fiscal 2026, while its core operations generated positive operating income as stronger revenue, higher patient volumes and operational improvements strengthened performance, according to financial documents published Sept. 16.…
A Sept. 16 panel at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference included a semantic argument that is becoming more substantive as artificial intelligence evolves: whether “AI” is a sufficient description anymore. Brian Hasselfeld, MD, executive medical director of…
Andrew Walker has been named inaugural executive vice president of finance for Birmingham, Ala.-based UAB Medicine, effective Oct. 26, according to a Sept. 16 LinkedIn post. In his new role, Mr. Walker will lead UAB Medicine’s financial strategy, system integration…
Almost every hospital in the United States has run a patient safety initiative in the past five years. Most have run several. High reliability training, safety huddles, event reporting refreshes, zero-harm campaigns, culture surveys, action learning collaboratives. If you are…
Carleen Noreus, the Florida nursing school operator who pleaded guilty mid-trial in June to running a diploma-mill scheme, was sentenced Sept. 15 to 87 months in prison, according to a Sept. 16 report by the Miami Herald. The sentence, handed…
“Consumer” is a word some healthcare industry members resist, wary that it reduces patients to a transactional label. Heather Geisler, executive vice president and chief brand and experience officer of Henry Ford Health in Detroit, doesn’t share that hesitation. “I…