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  • Mass General files performance improvement plan with state

    Massachusetts' largest hospital system has set cost savings targets after state regulators found fault with its healthcare spending growth and pressured the nonprofit to scale back a proposed expansion project.

    By Susan Kelly • May 18, 2022
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    States move to limit hospital visitor policies in wake of pandemic

    The Republican measures have passed in blue states like Colorado and Illinois. 

    By May 18, 2022
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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
  • Keith Zimmerman will lead HCA Healthcare's MidAmerica Division, effective June 13, 2022.
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    HCA taps new president to oversee Kansas City area

    Keith Zimmerman will replace longtime HCA Healthcare leader Mel Lagarde, who is retiring.

    By May 17, 2022
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    Nonprofit hospitals squeezed by pricier labor, investment losses in Q1

    The first quarter is going to be "one of the worst for most of our providers," Fitch Analyst Kevin Holloran said last week.

    By May 16, 2022
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    Efforts to protect health workers from violence on the job ramp up

    Renewed efforts to pass federal requirements for healthcare employers come as some systems are implementing their own policies to keep workers safe.

    By Hailey Mensik • May 13, 2022
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    Hospital labor expenses up 37% from pre-pandemic levels in March

    Hospitals spent nearly $5,500 in labor expenses per adjusted discharge in March compared to about $4,000 roughly three years ago, according to a report from Kaufman Hall.

    By Hailey Mensik • May 12, 2022
  • VA EHR implementation facing patient data, access concerns, audit finds

    The multibillion-dollar Cerner implementation hasn't improved data exchange as well as some had hoped, as the departments "did not take all actions needed to achieve interoperability," the audit found.

    By May 12, 2022
  • Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health seek to merge to create one of the nation's largest health systems, according to a May 11, 2022 announcement.
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    FTC likely to examine insurer overlap in Advocate Aurora, Atrium merger

    Mergers with geographic overlap often face challenges. This deal doesn't "raise the same red flags, but it doesn't mean that it gets waved through," said Leemore Dafny, former deputy director of healthcare and antitrust at the FTC.

    By May 12, 2022
  • Intermountain named Tiffany Capeles as the health system's first chief equity officer
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    Intermountain names first chief equity officer

    Tiffany Capeles' "leadership and her strong record of achieving greater health equity have earned her the respect of our peers in healthcare along with well-deserved national acclaim," Intermountain CEO Marc Harrison said.

    By May 11, 2022
  • Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health seek to merge to create one of the nation's largest health systems, according to a May 11, 2022 announcement.
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    Advocate Aurora, Atrium Health to merge, creating $27B system

    The combination brings together two separate regional health systems, one with operations in the Midwest and the other with a four-state reach in the South.

    By May 11, 2022
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    Rising Google searches for procedures suggest recovering demand, analysts say

    Searches for surgeries like orthopaedics, general surgery and cardiovascular procedures are above pre-pandemic levels, providing another data point to indicate that demand is recovering, according to a Needham report.

    By Nick Paul Taylor • May 11, 2022
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    Patient experience, safety worse during pandemic, Leapfrog says

    Patients reported issues with hospital staff responsiveness and said their experiences with care transitions out of a hospital setting worsened considerably during the pandemic, according to the watchdog.

    By Hailey Mensik • May 10, 2022
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    Insurers saw profits rise in Q1 as cost increases weighed on hospitals

    The results spurred payers to paint an improved financial outlook for the full year compared to earlier estimates for 2022.

    By May 9, 2022
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    Workers at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles begin 5-day strike

    Contract negotiations started in March. Last month, 2,000 employees represented by the union voted to authorize a strike.

    By Hailey Mensik • May 9, 2022
  • Mass General Brigham hospital in Boston, Massachussets, is among JM Electrical's control system projects.
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    Mass General Brigham gets partial nod for $2B expansion

    Massachusetts' leading hospital system, under state scrutiny to rein in spending, has cleared a key hurdle in its expansion plans.

    By Susan Kelly • May 9, 2022
  • Investment losses, COVID-19 costs drive Kaiser to $961M net loss

    That's down from a net income of $2 billion at the same time last year.

    By May 9, 2022
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    Nonprofit break-off drives Sutter to net loss, as system faces year full of labor negotiations

    Despite an improvement in operations, an Oakland-based university disaffiliating from the system in January drove Sutter to a loss of $184 million in the first quarter.

    By Updated May 12, 2022
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    Hospitals, PBMs say drugmaker restrictions on 340B discounts stifling finances

    Four court decisions on the legality of the restrictions — two in favor of drugmakers and two against — are currently pending appeals.

    By May 5, 2022
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    Hospital, payer, IT groups urge Congress to overturn ban on unique patient identifier

    Industry groups are ratcheting up the pressure on Congress to nix a decadesold ban on using federal funding to create a UPI. Subcommittees, meanwhile, are continuing hearings for 2023 appropriations bills.

    By May 5, 2022
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    ER providers push for federal protection against rising health worker violence

    Nurses have been bitten, punched and strangled with stethoscopes, "all while just trying to provide basic care to patients," Todd Haines, a member of the Emergency Nurses Association, said Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

    By Hailey Mensik • May 5, 2022
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    Banner Health invests in surgery center firm Atlas Healthcare Partners

    The investment from Banner will help Atlas scale and "grow into a larger national partner for other health systems," the companies announced Tuesday.

    By May 4, 2022
  • Stanford nurses walked off the job April 25 in a bid for better staffing and other measures in new contracts.
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    Stanford nurses ratify deal, ending weeklong strike

    Nurses will return to work Tuesday after ratifying a deal on new contracts that include measures to better retain and recruit nursing staff, the union said.

    By Hailey Mensik • May 3, 2022
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    Hospital volumes, revenues rebounded as omicron cases waned in March

    Many patients returned for nonurgent procedures and other non-COVID-19 care, especially outpatient, that had been previously delayed, according to a Kaufman Hall report.

    By Hailey Mensik • May 3, 2022
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    Air ambulance provider latest to sue over surprise billing ban

    The central issue of the new lawsuit is the guidance the federal government has provided to third-party arbiters.

    By May 2, 2022
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    Labor costs unlikely to wind down soon, for-profit hospitals report in Q1

    Hospital operators hoped the need for temporary nursing staff and heightened labor costs would ease alongside dwindling cases of the omicron variant, as they did during previous waves. That wasn't the case in the first quarter.

    By Hailey Mensik • May 2, 2022