A University of Utah study found that 26.7% of parents knowingly lied about their child’s symptoms to get an antibiotics prescription for three reasons. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, surveyed 236 parents across the country. Researchers asked parents…
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Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems is still waiting longer for insurers to pay its claims, but the slowdown has not worsened, CFO Jason Johnson said on the system’s Oct. 29 third-quarter earnings call. In July, Mr. Johnson said insurers were…
The share of U.S. employers covering GLP-1s for weight loss fell from 57% to 53%, the first decline in three years, according to the 2026 Best Practices in Healthcare Survey from WTW, released Oct. 28. The survey is based on…
The FDA has granted accelerated approval to Voceryq, the first plasmid DNA-based immunotherapy approved in the U.S., for adults with recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. The therapy, also known as doruxapapogene ralaplasmid and lalikinogene sifuplasmid-gxfd, was approved Oct. 30, according to an…
The University of Utah in Salt Lake City has named Donna Roach its first enterprise CIO, effective Nov. 1. Ms. Roach has led IT at University of Utah Health since 2020. In December 2025, she became system chief digital and…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare said an estimated 55,000 people had their information exposed after an unauthorized party gained access to its systems through a third-party vendor. HCA identified suspicious activity involving certain IT systems on Aug. 12, according to an…
Revenue cycle leaders are raising concerns about Elevance Health’s new site-of-care billing requirements, and some patients are taking insurance denials straight to payer CEOs. Here are 10 revenue cycle updates that Becker’s reported in October: 1. Forty percent of providers…
Blockbuster medicines now account for nearly half of prescription medicine spending worldwide, according to an Oct. 22 report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science that analyzes blockbuster drugs from 2000 to 2024. Here are seven things to know:
Geriatric firearm suicides increased continuously from 2018 to 2024, a recent study found. The report, published Nov. 2 in Cureus, analyzed CDC WONDER mortality data between 2018 and 2024 to find trends in firearm suicide and homicide deaths across demographic…
Buffalo, N.Y., is the best city for veterans’ healthcare, while Washington, D.C., ranked last, according to a Nov. 2 ranking from personal finance website WalletHub. The ranking compared the 100 most populated U.S. cities across 19 metrics focused on employment,…