The expiration of the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits is costing the largest for-profit health systems more than they expected, according to second-quarter earnings calls from HCA Healthcare, Community Health Systems and Tenet Healthcare. Patients who lost subsidized exchange coverage…
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Independent rural hospitals in Minnesota, North Dakota and Ohio are banding together into regional networks to compete with larger, consolidating health systems and payers, according to a July 22 Commonwealth Fund article. Here are four things to know: 1. North…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare broke down why it had increased its overall loss estimate due to ACA-related headwinds from $1 billion to $1.2 billion in 2026 during its July 24 second-quarter earnings call. “If you go back to our original…
Artificial intelligence is improving healthcare supply chains, but not in the flashy ways many expected. Rather than replacing procurement teams or making purchasing decisions autonomously, supply chain leaders said the most promising use cases are eliminating repetitive work, improving visibility…
Northwell Health’s Lenox Hill Hospital raised more than $1.6 million at its Brain Tumor Center Gala in New York City to fund research, clinical trials and treatment advancements for brain tumor patients. More than 600 guests attended the annual event,…
Salt Lake City is the best emerging U.S. city for early-career talent, according to a July 23 post from LinkedIn News. The list of the 10 best emerging cities to launch a career is based on LinkedIn’s annual list of…
For decades, healthcare has searched for the next breakthrough. Better therapies. Better technologies. Better payment models. Better data. More recently, new advances in artificial intelligence. Each has created value. However, none has fundamentally solved healthcare’s greatest structural challenge. Healthcare is…
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare saw a 17% year-over-year decrease in ACA exchange-related revenue in the second quarter of 2026 and a 13.5% decrease in exchange admissions, executives said on the for-profit system’s July 24 earnings call. Tenet CFO Sun Park said…
A growing number of hospitals are adopting Epic, reinforcing the company’s position as the dominant electronic health record vendor in the U.S. hospital market. Epic expanded its lead in 2025, increasing its share of the acute care hospital EHR market…
Sanofi is experiencing “a period of intermittent supply” of its Lantus SoloStar insulin pens in the U.S. amid rising demand, the drugmaker confirmed to Becker’s July 24. Lantus SoloStar is a prefilled pen that delivers insulin glargine, a long-acting insulin…