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…
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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.…
Phillip Kaufman has been named associate CFO of University of Miami Health System and the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, according to an Oct. 2 post on his LinkedIn page. Mr. Kaufman joins University of Miami…
UPMC has launched a new home care program, UPMC Your Care, designed to fill the gaps between traditional care settings and home. “Sometimes our biggest opportunity isn’t inside the hospital or the physician’s office; it’s closing the space between transitions…
Most health systems that build insurance arms aim to generate margin. Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine built Peak Health with a different goal in mind. Peak Health, the system’s provider-sponsored health plan formed in 2023, now covers more than 80,000 lives…
Health systems are spending heavily on AI, but proving what it delivers remains a challenge. Only 4% of systems have scaled AI with measurable outcomes, and 4 in 5 IT leaders struggle to measure AI’s return, according to an April…