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$1.9B paid to physicians, advanced practice clinicians by medical industry in ’21: report
Advanced practice clinicians received more payments from drug companies compared to medical device companies, while physicians accepted more funds from medical device companies versus drug companies, according to a new study from Durham, N.C.-based Duk…
8 hospitals seeking chief nursing officers
Below are eight hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers.
Like playing football with no pads: 6 leaders contextualize the ‘tripledemic’
With many children’s hospitals facing unprecedented capacity issues amid a surge in respiratory syncytial virus, flu season admissions at the highest level in 13 years and highly transmissible omicron subvariants gaining prevalence nationwide, ho…
California hospital names interim replacement for fired CEO
Mary Casillas, COO of Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister, Calif., was appointed interim CEO of the organization, according to an Oct. 31 news release shared with Becker’s.
10 RCM headlines from October to know
From a report finding that 27 percent of health system leaders have pursued outsourcing revenue cycle functions this year, to revenue cycle leaders sharing their biggest 2022 accomplishments, here are 10 RCM stories Becker’s published in October:
A first: Researchers find RSV, influenza can fuse together to create hybrid virus
For the first time, researchers have observed that respiratory syncytial virus and influenza viruses can merge to create a hybrid virus capable of evading the immune system, according to findings published Oct. 24 in Nature Microbiology.
CMS penalizes 2,273 hospitals for high readmissions: 6 things to know
CMS evaluated two and a half years of readmission cases for Medicare patients through the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and penalized 2,273 hospitals that had a greater-than-expected rate of return, according to a Nov. 1 report from Kaiser He…
VCU Health to unseat CEO
Richmond-based Virginia Commonwealth University is preparing to unseat Arthur Kellermann, MD, as health sciences senior vice president for the university and CEO of VCU Health System, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Oct. 31, citing three sour…
JPMorgan creates healthcare venture capital team
JPMorgan has launched a healthcare venture capital team targeting the life sciences.
