The Justice Department has launched a new healthcare fraud task force spanning Arizona, Nevada and Northern California. The West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force brings together the department’s fraud division with U.S. attorney’s offices in the three districts. The…
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A March cyberattack constrained growth and caused margin pressures for medtech firm Stryker, but leaders still expect the company to meet financial projections by the end of the year, according to an April 30 earnings call. Stryker had to pause…
Hartford, Conn.-based Trinity Health of New England has named a pair of interim leaders for Hartford-based Saint Francis Hospital. Robert Roose, MD, who leads Trinity Health of New England’s community hospitals, will serve as interim president of Saint Francis as…
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 the days cash on hand at 55 health systems…
U.S. hospitals are showing early signs of growth, but the path forward remains complicated, according to Strata’s Monthly Healthcare Industry Financial Benchmarks. “The nation’s hospitals and health systems saw incremental improvements to close the first quarter, but we have yet…
Emergency departments have become the default front door to the health system—but they were never designed to absorb the full weight of today’s demand. Health systems continue to respond in familiar ways: adding beds, expanding facilities, and pushing for incremental…
San Antonio-based Methodist Healthcare broke ground April 30 on a freestanding emergency room in San Antonio, bringing the system’s total number of freestanding ERs to 11. Methodist ER Medina Valley will serve as an extension of Methodist Hospital Westover Hills…
Michigan Medicine is notifying about 551 patients of a privacy incident involving unauthorized access to medical information through a national health information exchange after its EHR vendor Epic flagged unusual activity. The Ann Arbor-based academic medical center said it was…
Union Community Care, a nonprofit health system that operates across Lancaster, Lebanon and Chester counties in Pennsylvania, has signed a prime vendor agreement with Medline. The agreement gives Union Community Care access to Medline’s portfolio of medical-surgical products, including lab…
Six nursing and physician associate associations said they are “profoundly dismayed” and “deeply concerned” by the Education Department’s ruling to cap student loans and classify nursing and PA degrees as graduate, instead of professional degrees. On April 30, the Education…