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Operating room inefficiency is easy to miss. It rarely looks like an empty schedule — instead, it hides in unused blocks, late releases and reactive processes that leave capacity and revenue untapped even as surgical demand climbs. For many health…

In 2026, some health system-owned insurance plans have continued to face headwinds. Renton, Wash.-based Providence is slated to close most of its insurance business, Providence Health Plan, starting in 2027. Plans operated by Urbana, Ill.-based Carle Health and Ann Arbor-based…

CMS issued its fiscal year 2027 final payment rules for skilled nursing facilities and inpatient psychiatric facilities July 29. The rules update Medicare payment rates and revise quality reporting, value-based purchasing and patient assessment policies. Twelve things to know: Skilled…

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has contacted several health systems nationwide requesting emergency room records, including personally identifiable patient information, KFF Health News reported July 27. CPSC oversees safety for most consumer products sold to American households, excluding food, drugs,…

Hackers are using AI to accelerate attacks on hospital virtual private networks, reviving a tactic first deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Wall Street Journal reported. Exploiting VPNs, Russia-based Qilin has emerged as one of the most active ransomware operators…

Health systems are reducing expenses, restructuring leadership teams, reevaluating employee benefits and eliminating jobs as financial pressures mount. At Burlington, Vt.-based UVM Health, those efforts accelerated after state policy changes reduced annual revenue at the system’s flagship academic medical center…

The largest health system layoffs in 2026 are being driven by a range of forces. Regulatory penalties, exits from unprofitable insurance markets and outsourcing deals have all played a role in eliminations — from a CMS-driven certification loss that prompted…

The Federal Trade Commission sued Hims & Hers on July 29, alleging the San Francisco-based telehealth company shared consumers’ sensitive health information with third-party advertisers and deceived users about billing and cancellation practices. Utah and California joined the FTC as…

Cancer research groups and industry leaders are trying to raise awareness of a surgery that could reduce patients’ ovarian cancer risk by almost 80% — fallopian tube removal. While evidence of the surgery’s nearly 80% risk reduction was published Feb.…