HRSA announced Oct. 1 that it has approved 10 drugmakers to participate in a revised 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program, which will replace the traditional upfront 340B discount with a post-sale rebate structure for a limited set of drugs starting…
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Healthcare’s AI conversation has moved from adoption to performance. Many health systems have built the technology and governance to scale AI. The harder question is whether clinicians and staff are ready to make sound decisions with it. A health system…
Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network opened its $252 million St. Luke’s Heart Hospital at its Anderson Campus in Easton, Pa., Oct. 2. The five-story, roughly 355,000-square-foot heart hospital is the largest construction project in St. Luke’s more than…
Nearly half (44%) of nonprofit hospitals in Texas say they will send patients a bill before checking whether they qualify for free or discounted care, Tradeoffs reported Oct. 1. The nonprofit newsroom reviewed the presumptive eligibility policies of 166 nonprofit…
Becker’s asked pharmacy executives from hospitals and health systems, along with academic medical centers and universities across the U.S. to share what trends they deem dangerous. The 14 executives featured in this article are all speaking at Becker’s Healthcare 3rd…
As traditional hospital models face financial strain and rural closures, the critical combination of public research universities and healthcare offers a proven blueprint forward.
A service line is short two physicians. The employed group can absorb some of it. Per diem covers a few shifts. An agency can fill the rest by next month, at a rate someone will have to justify in the…
Nov 10, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
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- Greg Morgan, VP, Physician Enterprise, Hallmark
- John Buffa, CEO, Austin Major Group
- April Hansen, CEO, Barton Associates
- James Tekippe, Director, VMG Health
UAB Health System, a 16-hospital system based in Birmingham, Ala., has named Warner Huh, MD, deputy chief physician executive of the system and vice president of the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation. Dr. Huh will be in a dyad…
Two Minnesota health systems announced plans to combine into a 22-hospital system, and UPMC finalized a deal that moves it into the Ohio market for the first time. Here are nine hospital M&A moves that Becker’s reported during the week…
The executive in charge of the hospital revenue cycle used to run what many health systems treated as a back-office function. In 2026, the job sits much closer to the center of health system strategy. Payers are using AI to…