In this episode, Jakob Emerson, Associate News Director, Becker’s Healthcare, discusses the latest Medicare Advantage trends, including SCAN’s new partnership with Costco, insurer market exits, tighter margins, and fewer plan options for seniors. He also explores how changes to Part…
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A potential measles exposure at its neonatal intensive care unit has prompted Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger to tighten the unit’s visitation rules. Effective Aug. 21, only parents or legal guardians without measles symptoms may visit patients in the NICU, and all…
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Private equity activity in healthcare services slowed sharply in the second quarter as rising interest rate expectations, soft patient volumes and new state-level deal restrictions combined to weigh on mergers and acquisitions, according to an Aug. 14 report from PitchBook.…
Novo Nordisk has begun a late-stage trial testing lower doses of its oral Wegovy pill. The placebo-controlled trial, called OASIS 5, began enrolling patients Aug. 12 and will compare two undisclosed lower doses of oral semaglutide with placebo in about…
Kaleida Health’s transition to Epic’s EHR system cost the Buffalo, N.Y.-based health system $170 million and contributed to a $21.1 million operating deficit in the second quarter of 2026, a spokesperson for the organization confirmed to Becker’s. The Epic platform…
Epic used its Users Group Meeting executive address this week to confirm publicly for the first time that it’s participating in Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s effort to test its most capable — and still unreleased — AI model against critical software…
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating a safety event that affected four patients at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville, Tenn. The Tennessee Healthcare Facilities Commission informed the TBI of the situation on the evening of Aug. 14,…
Lee McCall will step down as CEO of Neshoba General Hospital in Philadelphia, Miss., to become administrator of University of Mississippi Medical Center’s community hospitals, he told Becker’s Aug. 21. Mr. McCall will oversee the Jackson-based system’s hospitals in Madison,…
The FDA has flagged eight medical device recalls, corrections and early alerts affecting convenience kits, vascular access devices, IV administration sets, ventilator circuits and catheter introducer kits. Here are the five recalls to know: