A medication mix-up that paralyzed a 72-year-old Nashville, Tenn., patient has pulled national pharmacy and anesthesiology groups into renewed scrutiny of whether clinicians should be criminally charged for errors. On Aug. 14, four joint replacement patients at Ascension St. Thomas…
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Health systems and hospitals are making significant changes to leadership and educational roles in an attempt to draw more young physicians into the positions — which means confronting aspects of leadership the industry has been overlooking. Last year, Becker’s found…
Sixty-nine percent of U.S. healthcare consumers said they would rather use an urgent care clinic affiliated with their own health system than an independent one, but only 43% have actually done so in the past two years, according to a…
Interventional radiology and neurosurgery saw the greatest jumps in annual compensation among 40 specialties, Doximity found. Doximity, a digital platform for U.S. medical professionals, released its 2026 Physician Compensation Report Aug. 25. The report surveyed physicians in June on how…
A state grand jury determined that $10 million from a Centene Medicaid settlement was “misappropriated” under Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration, according to a Jan. 28 sealed document obtained by CBS News Miami. Despite the findings, the document said…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is sending $93.3 million to Georgia through the federal Rural Health Transformation Program to expand telehealth services, advance surgical robotics and modernize rural healthcare access statewide. The funding, according to an Aug. 27…
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favor of HHS and CMS on Aug. 26, upholding the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program against a constitutional challenge from PhRMA, the National Infusion Center…
Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health’s Newark-Wayne Community Hospital will suspend its inpatient labor and delivery, newborn nursery and postpartum services Sept. 3 after it receives approval from the New York State Department of Health to close its Marshall Birthing Unit. The…
Medicare’s GLP-1 Bridge program is seeing early uptake at major retail pharmacies, with CVS and Walgreens each filling about 100,000 prescriptions less than two months after the program launched in July, according to an Aug. 26 NPR report. “We expected…