Chicago-based CommonSpirit posted an operating loss of $658 million for the three months ended March 31 — down from $591 million for the same period in 2022 — as rising costs and labor challenges persist.
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126 hospital and health system CFOs to know | 2023
The chief financial officers honored on this list are leading financial operations for health systems and hospitals throughout the nation.
Texas Children's to end transgender care
Texas Children’s Hospital will stop offering hormone therapy and other transgender care, according to the Houston Chronicle and ABC affiliate KTRK.
VA hospital promoted supervisor 1 month after feds recommended he be fired
A hospital supervisor at the VA Loma Linda (Calif.) Healthcare System was promoted shortly after a federal investigation that deemed him “problematic,” the Orange County Register reported May 17.
Do anesthesiologists plan to drop Medicaid, Medicare patients?
Most anesthesiologists will continue to take Medicare and Medicaid patients, according to Medscape’s 2023 Anesthesiologist Compensation Report released May 24.
CMS updates Stark Law, payment models: 4 notes
CMS’ 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment System would require physician-owned hospitals to satisfy all Stark Law hospital exceptions or rural provider exceptions to qualify for services referred by the physician owner or investor, Lexology reported May …
Hackensack Meridian, St. Joseph's open 2nd cancer center
St. Joseph’s Health and Hackensack Meridian Health opened a new cancer center in Totowa, N.J., on May 25.
Indiana physician to face board after providing abortion to 10-year-old
The Indiana attorney general is prosecuting an obstetrician-gynecologist for violating patient privacy and mandatory reporting laws in the case of a 10-year-old rape victim, the Indianapolis Star reported May 24.
Mass General Brigham gets $5.8M to train nurse educators
Boston-based Mass General Brigham received more than $5.8 million from the Labor Department to expand its nurse educator program.
What US region is seeing the largest increase in physician compensation?
Physicians working in the Western region of the U.S. have seen the largest increase in compensation from 2019 to 2022, according to the 2023 “MGMA DataDive Provider Compensation” report, which collected data from nearly 190,000 providers across 6,800 o…
