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Hospitals coming into compliance after price transparency fines
The hospitals that have been fined for price transparency violations came into compliance within three months of the penalties being levied against them, CMS data shows.
AdventHealth taps hospital CEO
Mark Smith has been named president and CEO of AdventHealth Avista in Louisville, Colo.
MetroHealth CEO: Why representation matters
When I was selected to lead The MetroHealth System in late 2022, multiple news articles highlighted the fact that I was the first female, the first person of color and the first nurse to be named president and CEO of this nearly 200-year-old institutio…
20 hospitals, systems where charity care lags behind tax breaks
A Lown Institute report found 80% of nonprofit hospitals’ charity care falls behind tax breaks, with some short by hundreds of millions of dollars.
20 hospitals, systems where charity care exceeds tax breaks
The Lown Institute, a nonpartisan healthcare think tank, released a new report March 26 examining the finances of more than 2,400 nonprofit hospitals in the U.S.
Ascension outsourcing Illinois hospitalist staff
SCP Health, a clinical services provider for hospital medicine, emergency medicine and critical care services, is set to assume control of all hospitalist employees from Ascension Illinois by June 1st, a spokesperson for Ascension told Becker’s.
Texas Medical Board drafts guidance on emergency abortion exemptions
On March 22, the Texas Medical Board issued proposed rules on emergency exceptions to the state’s strict abortion ban, which critics have said do not go far enough in addressing uncertainty among physicians and patients.
The perks of a lateral CEO move
In terms of title, CEOs have already reached the top rung of the corporate ladder. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that they should settle in, Donna Padilla, executive partner and healthcare market leader at WittKieffer, told Becker’s: There’s still …
16 states still catching up to pre-pandemic worker counts
Texas has 1 million more people working today than in February 2020, while more than a dozen states have seen the reverse, with employment lagging behind pre-pandemic levels, according to Bloomberg.
Lack of transparency 'handcuffed' feds' Change hack response, lawmaker says
Lawmakers are questioning UnitedHealth Group’s response to the cyberattack that took Change Healthcare’s systems offline for nearly a month.
