Category: Press Release

Anthem BCBS in New York and New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System have been entrenched in a heated contract dispute, with physicians and facilities going out of network at the beginning of the year and in March, respectively. Becker’s spoke with Victor DeStefano, commercial president for Anthem BCBS in New York, and Brent Estes, […]

Daniel Jackson, CEO of the Ascension Wisconsin Ministry Market, will transition from his role on April 17. Scott Cihak, COO of Ascension Wisconsin, will serve as interim CEO for the market until a successor is named, an Ascension spokesperson said in a March 26 statement shared with Becker’s. Mr. Jackson was named ministry market executive […]

Laurel, Miss.-based South Central Regional Medical Center is spending about $115 million on a new Epic EHR over the next 10 years to boost data-sharing in its region, improve the patient experience and help with physician recruitment, executives told Becker’s. The organization launched with the EHR in January, bringing four other local community hospitals onto […]

Although most hospitals track nursing investments as expenditures but not return on investment, chief nursing leaders at 45 U.S. hospitals said these initiatives support positive hospital operating margins.  An American Nurses Enterprise-commissioned survey asked chief nurse executives and chief nursing officers about their workforces, investment expenditures and hospital operating margin. Most hospitals recognized in the […]

Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health is taking a multipronged approach to tackling workforce shortages: investing in early education pipelines, raising minimum wages and leaning into technology to stretch its existing staff further. Mary Martin, COO of Duke University Hospital, said the problem runs deeper than supply and demand. The economics of healthcare education are driving people […]

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A […]

President Donald Trump will soon nominate a permanent director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, its acting chief, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, told agency employees at a Wednesday staff meeting. According to a recording obtained by KFF Health News, Bhattacharya at one point suggested to CDC staff that Trump could […]

The FDA has issued an alert regarding two lines of hemodialysis tubing sets from B. Braun Medical following an urgent medical device correction sent to customers by the manufacturer. Seven affected SKUs from the Streamline Airless System and B3 Low Volume Bloodline product lines may develop small air bubbles during treatment due to a change […]

The American healthcare system has never lacked for challenges, but the current moment feels different in both scale and urgency. Staffing shortages have moved from chronic annoyance to structural crisis. Reimbursement models are straining under the weight of an aging population and shrinking federal support. Safety-net institutions are making cuts they once considered unthinkable.  And […]