At least 58 physicians, nurses and other clinicians are running for governor or a congressional office this year, according to a Becker’s review of campaign websites and primary results. Here are 12 things to know: 1. The group includes 29…
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For most health systems, workforce strategy has been primarily a recruiting problem. They’ll post the opening, compete for the candidate and hopefully fill the seat. In a labor market where the shortage of nurses, physicians and specialists has deepened faster…
Moody’s Ratings found that 59% of the healthcare organizations it rates that suffered a cyber incident since 2020 were reached through a third-party vendor, compared with 40% across all sectors. Healthcare is the only sector where the third-party share has…
Amazon, Axon, Google, Meta and Oracle are asking the insurers and third-party administrators that run their health plans to expand electronic prior authorization upgrades, first promised under a 2025 federal pledge, to the self-funded market. CMS and the Labor Department…
Health systems never switched on the connection between patients’ medical records and ChatGPT. They’re absorbing some of the cost anyway, and Epic is building a way to cut down on the traffic. Seth Howard, executive vice president of research and…
The CDC has added a third U.S. measles death to its national tracker as cases pass 4,400, and Pennsylvania is warning physicians about congenital measles for the first time in decades. Here are six things to know:
As Elevance Health prepares to implement new site-of-care billing requirements, revenue cycle leaders are raising concerns about additional administrative burdens, potential payment delays and growing complexity across payers. “My broader concern is growing variation across payers, which adds cost and…
Elevance Health executives detailed how the company is using AI and tighter claims review to manage costs during the company’s Oct. 21 earnings call. “We are strengthening Medicaid cost management really by acting directly on the utilization and the payment…
Rural hospitals and health systems make up a growing share of the workforce reductions Becker’s has tracked in 2026, even as rural hospital closures have slowed. Becker’s compared its 2026 lists of hospital and health system job cuts and closures…
Chris Shea was named chief legal and administrative officer of Falls Church, Va.-based Longitude Health, a company formed by five health systems. Longitude’s members are Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health, Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System, Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine,…