Health system finance leaders are seeing a common pressure emerge in 2026: As insurance coverage becomes less stable and patients shoulder more of their healthcare costs, some are putting off care until they can no longer wait. CFOs at Phoenix-based…
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Pfizer agreed to give HHS a portion of its increased revenue if it is able to charge higher drug prices abroad, according to a “most favored nation” contract released Sept. 19, Bloomberg reported. The contract, released by consumer watchdog Public…
Elevance Health is laying off 216 employees in Louisiana as part of the wind-down of its Medicaid business in the state. The layoffs are set to take effect by the end of the year at the insurer’s Metairie office, according…
President Donald Trump says he is forming an “AI Force” to oversee the AI industry and will soon name an AI “czar,” modeling the initiative on the Space Force he created during his first term. In a Sept. 19 Truth…
President Donald Trump said he would be “demanding” drugmakers further split up vaccines into five doses given at six-month intervals, claiming the change would cause “a massive reduction in autism,” according to a Sept. 18 report by The Washington Post.…
University of Missouri Health Care went out of network with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield on April 1, 2025, after contract negotiations broke down over reimbursement rates. The dispute affected commercial, ACA marketplace and Medicare Advantage plan members and lasted…
For some health systems, moving to Epic is becoming as much an application-consolidation project as an EHR project. Recent Becker’s reporting shows health systems using Epic implementations and optimization efforts to retire dozens or even hundreds of legacy and third-party…
From Carle Health to NYC Health + Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic, three revenue cycle leaders at Becker’s 11th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference shared stories of their biggest wins and what they plan to tackle next.…
Health systems are under growing pressure to move care out of acute settings driven by capacity constraints, workforce shortages and payer restrictions. Advances in artificial intelligence and remote patient monitoring help facilitate that move — often closer to or into…
Columbia, Md., is the best U.S. city for women in 2026, according to a Sept. 21 ranking from personal finance website WalletHub. To develop the list, WalletHub compared 182 cities — including the 150 most populated U.S. cities, plus at…