Ogdensburg, N.Y.-based North Star Health Alliance has strengthened its partnership with the New York State Department of Health and selected a new financial advisory firm to help with restructuring efforts. The health system, which sought bankruptcy protection in early February,…
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West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Ill., has temporarily paused all patient care services in its emergency room, hospital and clinics, effective immediately. Services will resume once the revenue needed to fund operations is received, a hospital spokesperson said…
Centurion Foundation, a charitable 501(c)(3) organization, has acquired North Providence, R.I.-based Our Lady of Fatima Hospital and Providence, R.I.-based Roger Williams Medical Center from bankrupt Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings. “The path to achieving this outcome was neither easy nor…
Healthcare has been trying to solve the revenue cycle problem for twenty years. Every generation of technology promised to fix it. Workflow automation. Rules-based billing tools. Outsourced denial teams. Robotic process automation. And yet the numbers keep moving in the…
In this episode, Gretchen Wagner, Associate Vice President – Risk Management, Humana, discusses how health plans are navigating cost pressures, workforce challenges, and rapid change by strengthening value-based partnerships and operational efficiency. She highlights the critical role of data interoperability,…
In this episode, Qualenta Kivett, Executive Vice President and Chief People and Talent Officer at Tampa General Hospital, joins the podcast to discuss removing barriers for clinicians and staff through tools like ambient listening. She also shares how the organization…
Women and early-career researchers faced a disproportionate share of National Institutes of Health grant terminations in 2025, a pattern that could pose long-term consequences for the biomedical workforce, according to a March 23 study published in Proceedings of the National…
The White House has delayed nominating a new CDC director, allowing Jay Bhattacharya, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health, to continue leading the agency past the March 26 deadline, The Washington Post reported March 25. Dr. Bhattacharya has…
Charleston, W.Va.-based Vandalia Health is restructuring into two divisions and eliminating regional CEO roles as it moves away from its North-South operating model, according to a March 24 news release shared with Becker’s. The changes come as the system continues…
By 2028, there could be between 4.9 million and 10.1 million fewer people enrolled through Medicaid expansion in an average month as a result of Medicaid work requirements and six-month redeterminations, according to a March 25 research report from the…