Members may not think they are talking to AI when they call their health plan, but the person assisting them might be. Some insurers have been leaning into member-facing AI capabilities. One of UnitedHealth Group’s 1,000 AI use cases has…
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Centene offered buyouts to most employees in June. Now, the financials are catching up. In a July 28 report, the company projected severance costs between roughly $315 million and $365 million, mostly driven by the voluntary separation program, for the…
Five Republican members of Congress have pressed CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reverse a roughly 75% Medicare payment cut tied to image-guided superficial radiation therapy, a skin cancer office-based treatment for less…
Pressure injuries remain one of the most common and most preventable forms of patient harm — and CMS is about to measure them far more closely. The CMS Hospital Harm: Pressure Injury (HH-PI) electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) introduces reporting…
Sep 22, 2026 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
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- Michele Deppisch PT, CWS, FACCWS, Wound Care Consultant
- Robin Gasparini MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, DNP, APRN, Nursing Executive Advisor Consultant
Join Dr. Kalie Dove-Maguire, President and Chief Product Officer at Evidently, and physician leaders from major health systems for a direct conversation about what repeatable clinical AI outcomes look like when clinicians finally have the full complexity of the patient…
Sep 8, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Kalie Dove-Maguire, MD, President and Chief Product Officer, Evidently
- David Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, FACEP, Chief Clinical Officer and Senior Vice President, University of Maryland Medical Center
- James M. Blum, MD, CDH-E, Chief Health Information Officer, University of Iowa
- Spencer Dorn MD, MPH, MHA, Professor of Medicine, Executive Director, UNC Faculty Physicians, UNC Health
Kenneth Posey, who spent more than 50 years in hospital administration and was described as a “dedicated advocate” for rural healthcare, died July 23. He was 89. Mr. Posey spent 36 years as CEO of Jasper General Hospital in Bay…
Health systems spent years expanding ambulatory access through clinics, outpatient centers and multispecialty networks. Now many organizations are confronting a different challenge: managing increasingly distributed ambulatory portfolios that were not originally designed to operate at scale. This whitepaper explores how…
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A total of 438 urban hospitals closed across the U.S. between 2000 and June 2026, according to data shared with Becker’s from New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University’s Health Care Affordability Lab. Between 2001 and 2023, the period for which both…
Nebraska’s Department of Health and Human Services launched a public dashboard July 30 tracking the state’s Rural Health Transformation Program funding. Six notes: 1. The agency built the tool to show stakeholders and the public how transformation program dollars are…