Hospitals: Page 7

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    UHS posts softer-than-expected volumes for second consecutive quarter

    In light of the results, executives backed away from prior behavioral health growth targets for 2025, though they slightly raised the midpoint of overall revenue guidance.

    By Susanna Vogel • July 30, 2025
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    HCA raises 2025 guidance despite softening volumes

    The health system is the latest to report softer-than-expected patient volumes, which HCA tied to slow Medicaid, Medicare and self-pay volume growth.

    By Susanna Vogel • July 28, 2025
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    Provider burnout

    Hospitals are still struggling with provider burnout, after the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated underlying staffing issues and prompted workers to quit their jobs.

    By Healthcare Dive staff
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    Depressed volumes drag CHS’ second-quarter earnings

    Executives said the declines were due to flagging consumer confidence. Also, CEO Tim Hingtgen announced he plans to step down in September.

    By • July 25, 2025
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    Labcorp to buy some CHS assets for $195M

    The deal includes outreach laboratory services in 13 states. Community Health Systems will continue to operate its inpatient and emergency department labs along with other hospital-based testing services.

    By Susan Kelly • July 24, 2025
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    Tenet raises 2025 expectations, but dodges questions about policy impacts

    During an earnings call, the system's executives declined to say how the GOP's recently passed megabill, which includes steep cuts to healthcare programs, would impact the company.

    By • July 23, 2025
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    10M people will lose insurance due to GOP policy law: CBO

    The final tally from the nonpartisan budget scorekeeper estimates the law will decrease federal healthcare spending by $1.1 trillion over the next decade.

    By • July 23, 2025
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    Sutter Health names new chief operating officer

    Longtime hospital executive Kevin Manemann will oversee operations at the Northern California system starting in September.

    By • July 23, 2025
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    Democrat senators warn Medicaid cuts could worsen rural hospital cybersecurity

    Funding cuts enacted in the GOP’s massive tax law will push cash-strapped rural providers to deprioritize cyber preparedness, according to Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Warner.

    By • July 22, 2025
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    Hospitals are buying more doctor’s offices. That’s tied to higher costs, study finds

    A new National Bureau of Economic Research analysis links hospital-physician consolidation to lower competition and higher costs down the line. The American Hospital Association slammed the study as flawed.

    By • July 22, 2025
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    Bankrupt Steward sues former CEO over alleged financial mismanagement

    The health system alleges Ralph de la Torre and other former leaders “pilfered” the company’s assets and led to its collapse last year.

    By • July 18, 2025
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    Nonprofits ChristianaCare, Virtua Health explore merger

    Combining the two nonprofits would create a regional system spanning 10 contiguous counties in New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

    By • July 17, 2025
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    Medicaid cuts could have ‘far-reaching’ healthcare, economic impacts: study

    Coverage losses linked to the massive tax and policy law could drive up excess deaths and preventable hospitalizations by 2034, according to the study in JAMA Health Forum.

    By • July 16, 2025
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    Elevating patient satisfaction through foodservice: The importance of equipment performance

    Hospital foodservice can make or break patient satisfaction—directly affecting ratings and reimbursement.

    July 14, 2025
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    Hospital, health system M&A falls in Q2 as Medicaid cuts loom: report

    Policy volatility, tariffs and market turbulence are dampening M&A activity this year, according to Kaufman Hall.

    By • July 11, 2025
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    Historic Medicaid cuts to come as Trump signs domestic policy bill

    President Donald Trump passed the GOP's tax megabill into law, setting into motion $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts despite objections from hospitals, doctors, insurers and other stakeholders in the healthcare industry.

    By • July 4, 2025
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    340B could have a new cop on the beat. Hospitals are worried.

    The HHS wants to move oversight of the controversial drug discount program to the CMS, which has a more aggressive history with 340B than its covered providers would prefer. “It could be truly devastating,” one expert said.

    By • July 2, 2025
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    FDA stops Olympus devices from entering the US

    The agency said it issued the import alerts because it “continues to have concerns related to outstanding Quality System regulation violations by Olympus.”

    By Nick Paul Taylor • June 30, 2025
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    The transplant experience: time for change

    Kidney transplant shortage exposes need for prevention, living donation and bold innovation.

    By Jeff Giullian, MD, chief medical officer, DaVita • June 30, 2025
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    Prospect Medical Systems lays off 125

    The layoffs will impact employees of Prospect’s management services organization, according to notices filed with state regulators.

    By Susanna Vogel • June 26, 2025
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    UC San Diego Health lays off 230 workers

    The health system blamed the layoffs on regulatory uncertainty and rising costs of providing care.

    By Susanna Vogel • June 26, 2025
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    Ascension CEO to retire at year’s end

    Chief executive Joseph Impicciche will be replaced by current system president Eduardo Conrado.

    By Susanna Vogel • June 24, 2025
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    Providence unveils tech-focused strategic plan for 2030

    The plan comes on the heels of a broader restructuring in which Providence laid off 600 workers, citing economic challenges.

    By Susanna Vogel • June 24, 2025
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    Maintaining healthcare access and affordability increasingly difficult: report

    Providers will need to make difficult decisions about what services they offer and where amid growing headwinds, according to a new report from S&P Global Ratings.

    By Susanna Vogel • June 24, 2025
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    Medicaid cuts would push struggling rural hospitals ‘over the edge’: report

    Cuts to the safety-net program could push hundreds of rural hospitals into further financial distress and impact obstetrics care, according to a report from the Chartis Center for Rural Health.

    By • June 23, 2025
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    Ohio attorney general approves Summa Health sale to General Catalyst

    Attorney General Dave Yost set 10 conditions to allow the deal to move forward, including increasing the purchase price and equity by $15 million each.

    By • June 23, 2025