While larger health systems tend to tout the supposed benefits of consolidation, cross-market mergers in particular could be leading to higher prices and potentially lower quality of care, according to an Aug. 23 KFF report.
Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford University School of Medicine, says artificial intelligence’s long-term effects on medicine are “underhyped,” Politico reported Aug. 23.
Minneapolis-based Allina Health opted not to fill 150 open positions, as the health system lost $122.7 million between April and June, the Star Tribune reported Aug. 23.
CVS Health said Aug. 1 that it is eliminating 5,000 “non-customer-facing positions” across the company. According to WARN documents filed in August, those layoffs are taking place across at least nine states.
Kaiser Permanente is reintroducing a mask mandate at its facilities in Santa Rosa, Calif., amid an uptick in patients testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement obtained by The Press Democrat.