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…
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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…
York (Maine) Hospital officially joined Portland-based MaineHealth Oct. 1, according to a post on the hospital’s Facebook page. The hospital became part of MaineHealth’s Southern region. The organizations previosuly said they plan to maintain inpatient services at the hospital while…
Pharmacy leaders face constant pressure to control labor costs. Staffing spend is highly visible, closely scrutinized, and often the first target during budget reviews. When budgets tighten, external staffing rates and contract spend are easy numbers to question. But focusing…
Just-in-time ordering, a single trusted vendor and a relentless focus on unit cost once formed the backbone of healthcare supply chain strategy. That equation began to crack under years of disruption, and supply chain executives are now rebuilding around resilience,…
The CDC is planning a major redesign of its National Health Interview Survey, one of the federal government’s primary ways of measuring population health, to take effect in 2028. The survey would shift from in-person interviews to a “sequential mixed-mode”…