Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health Executive Vice President and CFO Caswell Samms III is urging hospital and health system financial leaders to evolve beyond their traditional roles in 2026 as the industry navigates increasingly challenging circumstances. “I don’t think we can continue to operate as financial scorekeepers,” he said during a Becker’s CFO+Revenue Cycle Podcast […]
Continue ReadingLisa Farris worried that a nasty infection from recent liposuction and a tummy tuck was rapidly getting worse. So she phoned the cosmetic surgery center to ask if she should head to the emergency room, she alleges in a lawsuit. The nurse who took the call at the Sono Bello center in Addison, Texas, told […]
Continue ReadingAn Arm and a Leg host Dan Weissmann breaks down how two states passed laws aimed at protecting people from things like medical debt, insurance delays and denials, and corporate profiteering. In Maine, lawmakers unanimously voted to remove medical debts from credit reports. While a nationwide court ruling has cast doubt on the new law’s […]
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Lenia Watson-Burton, a 37-year-old U.S. Navy administrator, expected that cosmetic surgery would get rid of stubborn fat quickly and easily — just as the web advertising promised. Instead, she died three days after a liposuction-like procedure called AirSculpt at the San Diego office of Elite Body Sculpture, a cosmetic surgery chain with more than 30 […]
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Jonna Quinn was initially thrilled when she got her first job after her medical residency, working as an OB-GYN in Mason City, Iowa. It was less than two hours down the road from West Bend, where she grew up on a farm. But the hospital started restricting certain birth control options and fertility treatments based […]
Continue ReadingWarren (Pa.) General Hospital will discontinue inpatient labor and delivery services effective Jan. 13, citing a national OB-GYN shortage and a sudden change in physician availability. The hospital had been operating with two OB-GYNs but was notified Dec. 29 that one physician would no longer participate in deliveries for the foreseeable future. Hospital leaders said […]
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ORANGE, California — Una mañana reciente, Carmen Basu, abrigada con una chaqueta roja y una bufanda de lana, se paró frente a la sede del plan de salud local, luego de recoger alimentos gratuitos. Había traído a su esposo, a su hijo adolescente y a su suegra de 79 años para que la ayudaran. Tomaron […]
Continue ReadingAltamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth has been affected by a 2025 hack of Cerner, now known as Oracle Health. The 50-plus hospital system started notifying impacted patients in December, after the EHR vendor sent the organization a list of individuals whose data may have been compromised by the breach Oct. 31, according to a notice. Oracle […]
Continue ReadingHartford (Conn.) HealthCare plans to transition its newly acquired hospital from Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings to an Epic EHR system. The health system finalized its acquisition of Manchester (Conn.) Memorial Hospital from Prospect Medical Holdings on Jan. 1. The deal includes Manchester Memorial, a 249-bed acute-care community hospital, and its campus in Rockville, Conn. […]
Continue ReadingStates are no longer required to report on the immunization status of children and pregnant people, according to a Dec. 30 letter from CMS to state health officials. For 2026, CMS removed four measures related to these reporting requirements for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The move would obscure a significant portion of […]
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