Over the past seven months, HHS has moved from talking about AI as a hospital efficiency tool to actively funding and defending the idea of AI that diagnoses, prescribes and treats patients largely on its own. Here’s a look at…
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Minneapolis-based Allina Health has signed a prime vendor agreement with Medline. The agreement gives the 12-hospital, 90-plus-clinic system, serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin, access to Medline’s medical-surgical product portfolio for its hospital and physician office sites, along with Medline’s distribution…
Hybrid chief nursing officer and COO role are gaining traction in healthcare as systems look to streamline operations and executive teams. While there is no universal approach to C-suite design, some health systems are capitalizing on the natural synergies between…
Adam Bacik was named CEO of the Medical University of South Carolina’s planned $1.115 billion comprehensive cancer hospital in Charleston. According to a July 8 MUSC news release, Mr. Bacik will oversee planning, design and construction; clinical and operational integration;…
Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare and Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based Select Medical have entered a joint venture partnership to operate a 47-bed specialty hospital. The Tallahassee-based hospital will include 19 critical illness recovery (licensed as long-term acute care) and 28 acute rehabilitation beds,…
Baton Rouge, La.-based Louisiana State University and FMOL Health — Our Lady of the Lake have awarded more than $1.6 million in competitive research grants to seven teams through a collaborative program that targets health challenges in Louisiana such as…
The District of Columbia has the highest total primary care physicians per 100,000 residents, while Utah has the fewest. KFF used state licensing information from Redi-Data in May 2026 to determine the number of professionally active primary care physicians by…
In this episode, Dr. Ken Cohen, Chief Medical Officer at Optum Health, discusses new research on Medicare Advantage, social vulnerability, and how full-risk care models can improve quality, efficiency, and patient outcomes. He also shares insights on the infrastructure, technology,…
In this episode,Jakob Emerson, Associate News Director, Becker’s Healthcare, examines the growing litigation over Medicare Advantage star ratings and the billions of dollars tied to quality bonuses. He also explores how AI is intensifying the coding and claims battle between…
Emergency medicine physicians per capita vary more than fourfold across the U.S., from 51.32 per 100,000 residents in the District of Columbia to 11.55 in Alabama, according to data from KFF and the U.S. Census Bureau. Becker’s used KFF’s count…