Hospitals face financial shifts, MA tension and staffing shakeups.
February 2, 2026

1. Tenet buys CommonSpirit out of Conifer joint venture Full story

2. CHS closes 2 sales, exits Pennsylvania Full story

3. Sutter Health. RWJBarnabas. CHOP. Hartford HealthCare. Trinity Health. Their leaders are among the 3,500+ headed to Becker's Annual Meeting, April 13-16. Save your seat here.

 

4. Ascension CEO 'taking a closer look' at Medicare Advantage plans Full story

5. Shutdown enters 3rd day: 4 updates Full story

6. OBBBA could reshape provider + payer risk. What to model first: here.

 

7. What Rush did to plan for ICE, policy volatility Full story

8. Woman sentenced to 6 years for posing as nurse Full story

9. UConn Health gets state approval to acquire hospital Full story

10. Alabama hospital under new ownership Full story

 

11. Urgent care fueled profitability for this regional system — find out how, here.

12. Hennepin to cut 100 jobs amid service line restructuring Full story

13. The 'seemingly small' change with a big effect on VCU Health's workforce Full story

14. 8 hospitals closing departments or ending services Full story

15. Texas hospital plans transition to rural emergency facility Full story

Becker's Learning Opportunities

16. Low-value inpatient care erodes margins. How Ardent Health validated ROI in 90 days here.

17. Payer costs projected to rise 8.5% by 2026. Leaders share how to strengthen negotiating here.

18. $1M recovered from coverage corrections is just the start. See what else agentic automation delivers here.

19. Interested in more? See Becker’s full lineup of webinars and whitepapers.

 

 

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