Kentucky has erased $153 million in medical debt for 67,000 residents, according to a news release from Gov. Andy Beshear. The debt relief is part of the Team Kentucky Medical Debt Relief Program, which the governor established through a Sept.…
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From Optum Health’s earnings rebound to a new chief marketing officer, here are 10 updates on UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries that Becker’s has reported since Oct. 7: 1. UnitedHealthcare and the Ohio Chamber of Commerce agreed to settle a…
Sept. 30-Oct. 30 1. Pat McCabe is retiring as senior vice president and CFO of Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare. David Russell will succeed Mr. McCabe as interim CFO. 2. Mark Runyon, executive vice president and CFO of Tampa General Hospital, will…
Only eight hospitals and health systems have been awarded the Centers of Excellence in Nutrition and Dietetics Designation from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Organizations must meet excellence criteria in four domains: quality of leadership, organization, practice and outcomes.…
Emplify Health, based in Green Bay and La Crosse, Wis., named Sharla Baenen, MSN, RN, chief quality officer. Ms. Baenen previously served as COO of Emplify Health’s Bellin region for six years, according to an Oct. 30 LinkedIn post. She…
When Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health and Thrive Global, the behavior change technology company founded and led by Arianna Huffington, announced their collaboration in October, they set out to help people make healthier decisions about sleep, food, movement, stress…
Elective surgical demand softened at the four major publicly traded for-profit health systems in the third quarter of 2026 even as patient volumes grew, with executives pointing to ACA exchange coverage losses and rising out-of-pocket costs. “I would not say…
Healthcare technology should adapt to the work of clinicians, not the other way around. In medication management, that starts with understanding the clinical work — and removing the effort that doesn’t belong there. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, technicians and other clinicians…
Nearly five months after California’s psychiatric nurse staffing ratios took effect, the state’s Medicaid agency is weighing a plan to send money that providers have sought to help absorb the mandate’s costs to programs further downstream. One psychiatric hospital CEO…
Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has developed an AI model that detects signs of disease and future health risks in CT scans beyond the condition each scan was ordered to assess, according to a study published in NPJ Digital Medicine. The model,…