CMS wants to cut off Medicare payment for the third-party vendors that run most remote patient monitoring programs today. The provision, tucked into the proposed 2027 physician fee schedule, has drawn swift pushback from hospitals, physician groups and the vendors…
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Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s board of directors authorized a $0.78 per share cash dividend to be paid on Sept. 30. The dividend will be paid to all shareholders of record as of the close of business on Sept. 16, according…
Health systems are expanding partnerships with Big Tech companies as they race to deploy AI, modernize data infrastructure and improve care coordination. Here are seven collaborations involving Amazon, Microsoft and Google reported on in the past month: 1. UTHealth Houston…
New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine resolved a yearslong federal criminal investigation into its handling of a former urologist’s sexual abuse of patients, federal prosecutors said July 27. Weill Cornell has paid or agreed to pay victims more than $1…
OpenAI signed its first international hospital partnership with Ramat Gan, Israel-based Sheba Medical Center. The deal, according to a July 28 news release, makes Sheba the first hospital outside the United States to gain access to OpenAI’s enterprise healthcare AI…
As a practicing radiologist, I never expected healthcare marketing to become one of my primary areas of focus. Yet the more I think about patient access, the more difficult it becomes to separate the two. Helping patients access care has…
U.S. companies across industries are turning to retired CEOs to lead turnarounds, The Wall Street Journal reported July 28. Will health systems take a page out of their book? To an extent, they already have — though the practice looks…
Of the 679 U.S. hospitals designated as “Magnet” hospitals for nursing excellence, about 5% have earned the recognition more than six times. The American Nurses Credentialing Center awards Magnet recognition to hospitals based on their quality of patient care and…
Major Pharmaceuticals has recalled 12 levothyroxine sodium tablet products distributed nationwide after the FDA classified the action as a Class II recall because the medications were subpotent, according to a July 28 FDA enforcement report. The recall was initiated July…
George E. Norcross III is donating $100 million to Camden, N.J.-based Cooper University Health Care and MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, marking the largest philanthropic gift in the health system’s history. Seven things to know: 1. The funding will…