Plus healthcare’s most dangerous trends

August 28, 2026

1. 40 physician specialties ranked by annual compensation Full story

2. Ascension drug mix-up renews focus on medical error criminalization Full story

3. Health systems can’t buy every AI platform pitch. UNC Health, NYU Langone + 4 other systems on how they choose. Read it here.

4. OpenAI, Microsoft, 100+ firms warn of coming AI cyberattack surge Full story

5. 68 health systems with strong finances Full story

 

6. Join 150+ peers for the FREE virtual livestream of the 8th Bundled Payment & Care Transformation Summit. Hear from healthcare leaders at Brown Health, Mount Sinai, UCHealth, and CMS, including Sacha Wolf on upcoming CMS policy updates, roadmaps, and key insights on TEAM and CJR-X. Register for free today!

7. Maryland sues UnitedHealth for $380M over Medicaid administration issues Full story

8. Corewell plans $1.7B multihospital expansion Full story

9. Baptist Health shares its operator playbook for contract-intelligent supply chains here

10. The most dangerous trends in healthcare today Full story

 

11. How Mass General Brigham protects quality while costs keep rising — see the strategy here.

12. Northwell’s $1.2B Epic bet will make a $25B health system ‘feel small’ Full story

13. Days cash on hand at 25 health systems Full story

14. Villages Health to pay $541.5M to settle Medicare Advantage fraud allegations Full story

15. Healthcare sector to account for 37% of new US jobs through 2035: 6 things to know Full story

16. Chemo drug shortage turns ‘critical’; FDA to allow overseas imports Full story

17. 756 hospitals patients would highly recommend Full story

Becker’s Learning Opportunities

18. 5 forces are reshaping how cancer care gets delivered, financed and staffed. See them here.

19. How the START Center for Cancer Care added infusion volume + cut wait times without new construction: here.

20. What’s working (and what’s not) with AI in the contact center. This webinar has the answers – one click to register.

21. Becker’s late-August webinar lineup: patient safety, referral intake, AI trust and supply chain data. See the sessions here.

 

 

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