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How CFOs' focus has shifted over 3 years
Health systems CFOs are spending more time on cost management and operations and less time on strategy and cash management than they were in 2021, according to a report from the Healthcare Financial Management Association and Eliciting Insights.
The new COVID-19 drug: 4 notes
More than a year after the FDA yanked away authorization from Evusheld, a monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19, the agency granted emergency use authorization to a new COVID-19 preventive drug March 22.
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 …
