Heart disease, cancer and unintentional injuries ranked among the 10 leading causes of death for every age group in 2024, and unintentional injuries were the top cause of death for people ages 1 to 44, according to a CDC report. …
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As health systems continue to grapple with financial pressures from rising labor and supply costs and reimbursement challenges, days cash on hand remains an important measure of financial stability. Here are days cash on hand figures for 52 health systems…
Kevin Burrows has been named vice president of finance and CFO of medical groups at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, according to a Sept. 28 LinkedIn post. Prior to his new role, Mr. Burrows served as director of finance for Northwestern…
Anchorage-based Providence St. Elias Specialty Hospital earned stroke and brain injury specialty program accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities International. Alaska has one of the highest rates of trauma and brain injury in the nation, and the…
Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health named Amir Lotfi, MD, chief medical officer, effective Sept. 28. As CMO, Dr. Lotfi will provide systemwide clinical leadership and oversee quality measurement, clinical quality improvement, patient and team member safety, peer review, infection control, and…
In this episode, Alpa Vyas, Senior Vice President and Chief Patient Experience and Operational Performance Officer at Stanford Health Care, joins the podcast to discuss turning patient feedback into opportunities for improvement and engaging leadership teams in that process. She…
This episode recorded live at the Becker’s 11th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference features Romila Aloysius, Executive Director, Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute, AdventHealth, who discusses using AI and connected data to identify patients earlier, reduce…
Getting a payer file is easy. Trusting it is not. In a late-2025 survey of 56 hospital and health system C-suite leaders, 87% said claims data matters to value-based care. Only 35% were confident it was accurate. Just 11% called…
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When a health system sells its ambulatory laboratory operations, it collects a one-time payment and gives up the recurring revenue that testing would have earned for years. Many leaders underestimate how profitable ambulatory testing is, then watch the lost margin…
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Your health system already earned the revenue, and now it’s sitting in a fax queue, in a denial nobody had time to appeal, and in an authorization that’s been pending for three weeks. See how health systems are clearing those…
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