For Medicare Advantage members with similar MSK conditions, the path they take through care can make a dramatic difference in downstream cost. One path can lead to imaging, surgery, and post-acute care. Another can resolve the condition through guided, low-intensity…
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A 40-year-old woman died Sept. 12 from measles complications in Jefferson County, Pa., marking the state’s third measles-related death of 2026 and the first reported outside hard-hit Lancaster County. Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong confirmed the death Sept. 12, calling…
Patient rights violations remain the deficiency hospitals are cited for most often by federal surveyors in 2026, according to a Becker’s analysis of CMS inspection data. Becker’s reviewed 3,587 CMS Form 2567 statements of deficiency — the reports surveyors file…
Only 61 hospitals earned five-star ratings for both overall hospital quality and patient experience. Becker’s compared CMS’ Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, which captures patients’ experiences during a recent hospital stay, with the agency’s Overall Hospital…
Ahead of anticipated cuts and headwinds from HR 1 in 2027, health systems reported a wide range of financial performance in the second quarter of 2026. Tenet Healthcare led the systems with a 26.7% operating margin on $5.6 billion in…
Most health system continuity plans were built for a different disaster — severe weather, mass-casualty events, scheduled maintenance. Those are forecastable or finite. A cyber event is neither. It arrives without warning, often starts at a vendor you can’t see,…
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In recognition of National Assisted Living Week, from Sept. 14-19, the National Center for Assisted Living released statistics on the current state of the industry in a Sept. 13 news release shared with Becker’s. Here is what to know. 1.…
Health system CHROs and other HR leaders are navigating one of the most complex industry environments in years while also preparing their organizations for technology and workforce changes still ahead. For some, that has expanded the job beyond traditional HR…
For health system IT leaders, deciding whether to fire a vendor rarely comes down to reading a service-level agreement dashboard. It comes down to a harder question: whether the relationship, as it stands today, is one they would enter into…
Value-based care has entered the mainstream. The latest national measurement from AHIP found that nearly 45% of U.S. healthcare payments flowed through models holding providers accountable for quality and cost in 2024—nearly twice the share reported a decade earlier. Yet…
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