Hospital outpatient departments were paid an average of 102% more per unit than physician offices for the same physician-administered medications, a premium that adds up to about $12.7 billion a year in employer health spending, according to new research from…
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Forbes named 900 companies to its 2026 list of the World’s Best Employers, including 62 healthcare organizations. Forbes worked with market research firm Statista on the seventh annual ranking, published Sept. 29. Statista surveyed more than 300,000 employees in more…
Elon Kotlar, MD, has been named chief health informatics officer at Greenville, N.C.-based ECU Health. In this role, Dr. Kotlar will oversee the health system’s informatics strategy focusing on advancing the use of clinical informatics, analytics, artificial intelligence, and digital…
It’s the end of the world as we know it; panic and mass hysteria. That is roughly the tone of recent coverage of the pharmacy changes arriving in 2027, and it is worth turning the volume down, because the truth…
For Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health, urgent care has become a larger part of its growth strategy. The system is acquiring 36 urgent care centers across South Carolina from Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health, a deal expected to close Nov. 1 that…
For years, the instinct in healthcare leadership was to equate bigger with better: more beds, more service lines, more volume, more capabilities built and owned in-house. Becker’s asked CEOs, CFOs, and clinical and supply chain leaders from hospitals, health systems…
For generations of physician and nurse leaders, good care was measured by presence: a full roster, a fully staffed floor and a patient in a hospital bed. That definition is shifting fast as virtual nursing, AI-supported workflows and team-based care…
As rural and regional hospitals head into 2027, their leaders are moving away from volume as the main path to revenue. Instead, many are focused on keeping care close to home, reducing outmigration and capturing the revenue they have already…
Mary Klotman, MD, will complete her service as executive vice president for health affairs and chief academic officer of Duke Health and dean of Duke University School of Medicine on June 30, 2027. Dr. Klotman has spent two decades in…
If last quarter’s health IT theme was that the hard part of AI isn’t the technology, this quarter’s was that someone has to pay for it — and hospital CIOs started acting like it. From July through September, the leaders…