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Private equity firms own at least 130 rural hospitals: 8 things to know

Private equity healthcare deals were down in 2022 but still had their second-biggest year on record, according to a Jan. 10 Bain & Co. report. The industry has an estimated $1.78 trillion lined up for potential investments in 2023, a 35 percent increas…

MyChart on smart TVs, two-way texting, genomics: Epic's plans for '23

After a year in which it debuted several new software programs and worked with Big Tech companies such as Google and Apple, Epic has big plans and goals for 2023.

$310M in medical office building acquisitions in 9 days

Here are four medical office building acquisitions totaling $310.85 million that Becker’s has reported on since Jan. 11: 

Software vendor data breach affects nearly 49,000 individuals at UCHealth

A third-party data breach affected 48,879 patients, providers and employees of UCHealth, the Aurora, Colo.-based health system reported.

CMS allows California prison inmates to receive Medicaid care

CMS will allow Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Plan funds to treat people in prisons, jails and youth correctional facilities for the first time ever in California.

ChatGPT can't be an author, scientific journal editors and publishers say

In the last week, thousands of scientific journals have updated their policies to clarify that ChatGPT — an artificial intelligence chatbot that generates humanlike responses — cannot be listed as an author on research papers. Some have also moved to o…

Electricity company to donate $50 to UPMC for every new customer

Electricity and natural gas supplier NRG will donate $50 for every new electricity customer and $25 for every new natural gas customer to Pittsburgh-based UPMC Children’s Health Foundation after the company selected the health system to be the benefici…

FDA panel votes for bivalent COVID-19 shots, debates 'annual' schedule

All COVID-19 vaccines should be targeted to the original and dominant strains, an FDA advisory panel said Jan. 26, but members debated whether a new modified vaccine every 12 months is optimal.  

New York hospitals pushing for Medicaid increase to alleviate staffing woes

Hospitals in upstate New York are pushing for a Medicaid reimbursement rate increase to help combat staffing shortages, Spectrum News 1 reported Jan. 26. 

Illinois hospital apologizes for abrupt closure announcement

Hours before St. Margaret’s Health-Peru (Ill.) is scheduled to temporarily close, the hospital issued an apology to employees and the community for the way the news was delivered.