Average total payments for GLP-1 users without diabetes rose sharply between 2017 and 2022, even as patients personally paid less out of pocket, according to a Northwestern University study published July 16 in the Journal of the American Heart Association. …
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'Hospitals without an outpatient footprint will struggle': Health systems race to build ASC networks
Hospitals are generating more revenue, but a continued migration toward outpatient care and rising operating costs are accelerating one of healthcare’s biggest strategic shifts: investment in ambulatory surgery centers. Kaufman Hall’s latest “National Hospital Flash Report” found outpatient revenue per…
Sharon (Conn.) Hospital, part of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, recently appointed H. Janelle Carr, DNP, as chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services. Before joining Northwell’s Sharon Hospital, Dr. Carr most recently served as assistant…
Hospitals’ bad debt and charity care costs are climbing sharply, according to Kaufman Hall’s most recent “National Hospital Flash Report,” which draws on data from more than 1,300 hospitals. Bad debt and charity care per calendar day rose 16% year…
Registered nurses and resident physicians at San Francisco-based UCSF Health rallied outside a UC Regents meeting July 15, calling on hospital leadership to address what they described as a patient safety crisis driven by emergency department boarding and unsafe staffing.…
On Aug. 3, Susan Carroll will become chief of clinical enterprise operations at Inova Health System — a role overseeing all five hospitals that she has, one by one, already run. That arc is rare. Ms. Carroll told Becker’s she…
Haskell (Texas) Memorial Hospital has temporarily closed due to flooding, according to a July 16 Facebook post from the hospital. The 25-bed critical access facility is in the western part of Texas, and nearly three-and-a-half hours from Dallas. Texas Gov.…
Most large health systems have spent the last several years working toward a single, unified EHR platform. But getting there is rarely quick. Mergers, acquisitions and phased rollouts mean many of the country’s biggest hospitals and health systems are still…
David Nosacka has been named executive vice president and CFO of Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health, effective Aug. 17. In his new role, Mr. Nosacka will lead the system’s financial strategy and performance, according to a July 16 news release shared…
A coalition of nine civil rights and healthcare advocacy organizations released a report Wednesday warning that federal funding cuts and new enrollment barriers will cause historic health insurance losses across the U.S., according to a news release shared with Becker’s.…