Block utilization can provide useful directional insight, but on its own, it can mask unused time, excess allocation and barriers to OR access. At an executive roundtable sponsored by LeanTaaS at Becker’s 2026 Perioperative Summit, three health system executives described…
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OU Health, the academic health system in Oklahoma City that operates the city’s only Level I trauma center, created an enterprise-wide OR operating system. It deployed the platform in stages but rolled out each capability broadly rather than testing it…
Hospitals rarely lack operating room data. What they lack is data that arrives in time to act on, in the hands of the surgeons and schedulers who make daily decisions, and a governance structure that outlasts the consultants who built…
Demand for glucagon-like peptide-1 therapies has never been clearer. Yet for obesity-indicated GLP-1s, 90 percent of that demand never becomes treatment. Payer rejections, cost concerns and early drop-off drown out the signal between a written prescription and a patient on…
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Providence and MultiCare Health System have agreed to pay a combined $155.5 million to settle two class-action lawsuits brought by former patients of Jason Dreyer, DO, a neurosurgeon accused of performing unnecessary spine surgeries to boost his productivity, according to…
Advanced practice providers are projected to make up 50% of the employed clinician workforce nationwide by 2033, Britney Broyhill, DNP, ACNP-BC, vice president of advanced practice for the North Carolina and Georgia division at Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, said in…
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health is pivoting from urgent care to virtual care in South Carolina, The Post and Courier. Novant is selling 36 of its South Carolina urgent care centers to Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health. The deal is expected to…
Bob Cannon, president of St. Louis-based BJC Health’s East Region, plans to retire April 1. Mr. Cannon has spent 26 years with BJC, according to a Sept. 14 health system news release. In that time, he held leadership roles spanning…
The Trump administration is overhauling federal price transparency rules for payers and self-insured employers, including cutting so-called “ghost rates,” expanding out-of-network price disclosures and requiring executives to vouch for the accuracy of the data. The final rule, released Oct. 5…
CMS is raising concerns about growing costs and payment problems in the federal independent dispute resolution process created by the No Surprises Act. The agency met with every certified independent dispute resolution entity Oct. 1 to talk about possible fixes.…