Arlington-based Texas Health Resources has promoted Nadieska Morgan to associate vice president of central business office, according to a Sept. 22 post on her LinkedIn page. She takes on her new role after serving as a director of business operations…
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and its parent company, Health Care Service Corp., over potential denials and delays of medically necessary care, as well as prior authorization concerns. Mr.…
As hospital margins tighten and consolidation accelerates, the best-positioned health systems are taking a more deliberate view of what they own, where they invest and which capabilities they may be better off accessing through partnerships. That means looking beyond the…
Lexington, Mass., is the best small city in the U.S. to live in, according to a Sept. 29 ranking from personal finance website WalletHub. To build the ranking, WalletHub compared 1,318 cities with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 across five…
Section 232 tariffs on patented pharmaceutical products and associated pharmaceutical ingredients took effect Sept. 29 for companies not covered by the earlier July 31 implementation date. The tariffs follow a Commerce Department investigation that found U.S. dependence on imported pharmaceuticals…
Jill Graziano, BSN, RN, has joined Portland, Maine-based MaineHealth as president of its Coastal Region, effective Sept. 21, according to a Sept. 29 news release shared with Becker’s. In the role, Ms. Graziano leads strategy and operations across the region,…
Most revenue cycle strategies begin after the patient leaves the room. By then, documentation gaps, missed codes and underdocumented complexity have already made their way into the clinical note. Becker’s Healthcare spoke with Kevin Wang, MD, Chief Medical Officer at…
Researchers at West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health found three drivers of patient satisfaction during a hospital stay. The study, published in the American Journal of Medical Quality, analyzed more than 86,000 patient surveys across 12 hospitals using machine learning predictive…
Cooper Norcross Health is piloting Microsoft Dragon Copilot for nurses at Cooper Norcross University Hospital in Camden, N.J. During patient care, a nurse can start an ambient recording on a mobile device. Dragon Copilot uses the conversation and spoken observations…
State College, Pa.-based Mount Nittany Medical Center is continuing the legal battle to restore its sole community hospital designation, which CMS terminated in April, and estimates that the designation loss will cost the hospital approximately $15 million annually. In June,…