The Texas Medical Board has sanctioned three physicians on allegations of delayed care for two pregnant women who died, ProPublica reported April 17. In one case, a pregnant 18-year-old sought care for life-threatening complications multiple times, and two physicians —…
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A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida has dismissed an Aetna lawsuit that alleged that radiology practices routed claims to secure higher reimbursement rates. Aetna claimed Radiology Partners and Mori, Bean and Brooks…
Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners has named Blake Berquist executive vice president and CFO. Mr. Berquist brings more than 17 years of healthcare finance and operations experience to the integrated health system, according to an April 20 news release. He most recently…
Rural hospital CEOs are hitting a breaking point. Inpatient volumes are shrinking, workforce costs are climbing, and the fee-for-service model that once anchored community hospitals offers diminishing returns. But rather than waiting for the margin pressure to resolve itself, a…
As health systems aspire to extend care beyond the visit, AI tools are becoming essential to orchestrating pre and post-visit outreach without adding to the burden on the clinical workforce. This was a main theme at a panel discussion sponsored…
Primary care providers generate higher-quality notes than AI scribes, illustrating the need for humans to continue reviewing and editing drafts created by the technology, a new study found. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had 30 humans blindly…
From AI specialists to communications to billing experts, Amazon is hiring for a variety of jobs for its healthcare arms. The tech giant continues to fill healthcare-related roles for One Medical, Amazon Health Services and Amazon Web Services. Here are…
Cases of coccidioidomycosis, or Valley fever, jumped from 1.8 in 100,000 children in 2021 to 10.9 in 100,000 in 2024, a University of California, Los Angeles study found. The study, published March 12 in Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases…
Fort Worth, Texas-based JPS Health Network has broken ground on a new hospital that it calls the centerpiece of its master facility plan. The $1.5 billion hospital will significantly expand capacity and bring advanced clinical services into modern, integrated spaces,…
West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Ill., is continuing its reopening process, recalling about 80 of 670 furloughed employees back to work. The hospital resumed hospital-based clinic and outpatient testing services April 15 — the first step in reopening…