A Chicago man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his role in a Medicare telehealth and durable medical equipment fraud scheme that caused more than $365 million in false claims. Herbert Kimble, 60, was also ordered to…
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has finished its 2026 EHR deployments after going live with an Oracle Health EHR system at hospitals in Cleveland and Anchorage, Alaska, on Oct. 24. The system went live at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA…
Hospital CEO exits are running 22% ahead of last year’s pace, even as overall CEO turnover across U.S. companies slowed in September, according to an Oct. 27 report from executive outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Five things to know:…
Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital, part of Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health South Florida, plans to open its Gloria Drummond Patient Tower to patients within the next few weeks, CEO Lincoln Mendez said in an Oct. 26 statement shared with…
Older adults who received two weeks of home-delivered meals post-discharge were 69% less likely to be readmitted within 14 days, a Durham, N.C.-based Duke University study found. The study, published on Sept. 19 in Journal of Hospital Medicine, analyzed data…
Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health has named Syed Samiullah chief digital and information officer, effective Oct. 26. Mr. Samiullah joins from Optum Health, where he most recently served as CIO of the East Region and held a series of leadership roles…
One health system cut its trash can liner options from 60 to 20 and saved $3 million a year. That’s a single product category. Indirect spend on office supplies, furniture and cleaning products rarely gets the scrutiny clinical spend does,…
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Daryl Tol is stepping down as leader of Health Assurance Transformation Co., the healthcare unit of venture capital firm General Catalyst, which acquired Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. Reva Nohria, a longtime healthcare…
Healthgrades released its 2027 Specialty State Rankings Oct. 27, naming the top three or five hospitals in each of 19 specialties across 30 states. The rankings use Medicare inpatient data from 2023 to 2025 on 31 conditions and procedures. To…
Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health’s AI coding tool let the system absorb 78 new providers and 176 new departments without adding staff, according to results Trinity shared during its fiscal 2026 investor call Oct. 26. “We prioritized integration in this area,…