Hospitals: Page 10

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    Tenet has ‘outstanding’ 2024, addresses policy changes in Washington

    Health system leaders said Tenet is mostly insulated from proposed policy changes like Medicaid cuts due to its focus on ambulatory surgical centers. 

    By • Feb. 13, 2025
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    Trump administration healthcare executive orders hit snags in court

    Although the directives to limit publicly available healthcare data and cut federal funding for medical research have been temporarily blocked by federal judges, providers face uncertainty as they await final rulings.

    By • Feb. 12, 2025
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    Payer/provider relationships

    As M&A intensifies and companies embrace more holistic and value-based care models, partnerships have become more closely intertwined.

    By Healthcare Dive staff
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    Large healthcare companies are redistributing most of their profits to shareholders, study finds

    Researchers suggested that policymakers encourage reinvestment of capital into patient care and limit share buybacks based on the findings.

    By • Feb. 12, 2025
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    Deep Dive

    A new, non-opioid pain drug is here. Getting it to patients could be agony.

    After decades of research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals now has an approved pain medication. Can one of the world’s most powerful biotechs contend with a healthcare system that’s long favored opioids?

    By Jacob Bell • Feb. 11, 2025
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    Mass General Brigham to conduct largest layoffs in its history

    MGB said the layoffs are necessary to get ahead of an anticipated budget shortfall of $250 million over the next two years.

    By • Feb. 11, 2025
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    Kaiser’s 2024 earnings show ROI of Risant Health spinoff

    Risant acquisitions accounted for about half of Kaiser’s net income in 2024.

    By • Feb. 10, 2025
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    Crozer Health placed into receivership after proposed deal collapses

    Bankrupt Prospect Medical Holdings scuttled a deal to sell Crozer Health but secured $20 million in funding from regulators to keep Crozer’s operations afloat for one more month.

    By • Feb. 6, 2025
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    Q&A

    Why health systems should be ‘clear-eyed’ about business goals for AI tools

    Caroline Pearson, the executive director of the Peterson Health Technology Institute, discusses the institute’s new task force studying the financial, efficiency and workforce effects of AI products.

    By • Feb. 6, 2025
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    Providers sue Trump over gender-affirming care policies, purge of health information

    Doctors groups signed on to lawsuits seeking to overturn policies that limit gender-affirming care for minors and remove some public-facing health information.

    By • Feb. 6, 2025
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    AHA joins call for Trump to exempt devices from import tariffs

    Disruption to the supply of devices from China would curtail hospitals’ ability to perform life-saving surgeries and protect patients and healthcare workers from contagion, the group warned.

    By Nick Paul Taylor , • Feb. 6, 2025
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    HCA finalizes acquisition of Catholic Medical Center

    CMC has struggled financially for years and was on the verge of bankruptcy prior to the deal. Regulators imposed significant conditions on the sale and will monitor HCA for compliance over 10 years.

    By • Feb. 4, 2025
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    Prospect Medical wants to to sell its Rhode Island hospitals to the Centurion Foundation

    State regulators approved a deal to sell the hospitals months ago. However, Prospect said in court filings it couldn’t afford to carry out the attorney general’s hefty closing conditions.

    By • Feb. 4, 2025
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    Healthcare supply chain, pharmacy costs to rise in 2025: report

    Tariffs and price inflation for specialty medications will increase costs, according to research from Vizient. 

    By • Feb. 3, 2025
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    Hospitals seek to intervene in J&J lawsuit against HHS to protect valuable drug discounts

    340B Health and two safety-net hospitals want to help the government prove that drugmakers are required to give upfront discounts on 340B drugs.

    By • Feb. 3, 2025
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    Bankrupt Prospect Medical says it has tentative deal to sell Crozer Health

    Prospect Medical Holdings said Friday it has a deal to sell Crozer Health to a consortium of nonprofit healthcare operators. However, the system offered few specifics about deal terms.

    By • Feb. 3, 2025
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    Trump seeks to ban federal funding for youth gender-affirming care

    Over half of U.S. states currently have laws banning or reducing access to gender-affirming care like puberty blockers for minors. Under the new directive, even more providers could stop offering treatments.

    By • Jan. 30, 2025
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    RFK Jr.'s path to HHS secretary

    RFK Jr. signals willingness to restrict abortion, despite prior stance

    At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Democratic and Republican senators sought to tie Kennedy down on how he’d approach the issue as health secretary, if confirmed.

    By , , • Updated Jan. 30, 2025
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    Healthcare’s outlook in 2025: New administration spells uncertainty, but hope remains

    Although experts predict payers, providers and health technology companies will grapple with uncertainty in a second Trump administration, some hope that yearslong headwinds could begin reversing course in 2025.

    By • Jan. 29, 2025
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    Opinion

    Site-neutrality: A solution in search of a problem

    Site-neutral payment policy is a distraction from the underlying causes of high healthcare costs and places providers at risk, argues Ascension’s chief health outcomes officer.

    By Richard Fogel • Jan. 29, 2025
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    Main Line Health threatens to go out of network with Cigna over contract dispute

    Main Line Health says Cigna hasn't updated its reimbursement rate since 2016. Cigna says it is negotiating in good faith to find a solution that keeps healthcare affordable for patients.

    By • Jan. 29, 2025
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    Lawmakers report states shut out of Medicaid payment portals following Trump funding freeze

    Other payment systems also appear to be offline, suggesting a broader shutdown of federal portals related to grants and funding.

    By • Updated Jan. 28, 2025
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    Healthcare bankruptcies declined in 2024: report

    Still, bankruptcy filings remained elevated, with the sector reaching the second-highest amount in the past six years, according to healthcare restructuring advisory firm Gibbins Advisors.

    By • Jan. 28, 2025
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    Providence restructures its executive team — again

    The Washington-based health system is launching an Office of Transformation to oversee the deployment of technology, including artificial intelligence, across the organization.

    By • Jan. 24, 2025
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    HCA closes 2024 strong despite lingering hurricane impacts

    However, this year looks volatile, as the future of Medicaid state supplemental payment programs is uncertain and the threat of tariffs hang overhead.

    By • Jan. 24, 2025
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    Jefferson, Lehigh Valley Health to lay off 271 workers

    The layoffs come five months after the hospital operators merged, creating a 32-hospital system.

    By • Jan. 23, 2025