Across hospitals, patient flow challenges are playing out daily — delayed discharges, constrained capacity and growing pressure on emergency departments. These issues rarely start in one department. They reflect how effectively patients move across the entire system, from admission through…
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Here are four dental industry updates in Maine from 2026: 1. Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed legislation April 15 that increases the reimbursement rate for general anesthesia given during dental procedures. The law increases the reimbursement rate from $151 to…
Pharmacy is no longer a cost center defending its budget. It is an enterprise lever, and the executives running it are being asked to behave — and be staffed — accordingly. At the 2026 CPO Summit, the chief pharmacy officers…
Plantation, Fla.-based Vitana Pediatric & Orthodontic Partners recently added a New York practice to its network. The DSO partnered with Comella & Associates Orthodontics in Rochester, N.Y., according to an April 23 LinkedIn post. Vitana Pediatric and Orthodontic Partners was…
AI is a people-and-process story — not a tech one. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, the CIOs, CDOs, and CMIOs running Cleveland Clinic, Penn Medicine, Jefferson Health, Prisma Health, Northwell Health, Allina Health, Ochsner Health and CommonSpirit told each other…
The CEOs named the mandate. The CFOs are building the operating answer. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, the CFOs running Cleveland Clinic, Ascension, Kaiser Permanente, Sentara Health, Allina Health, NYC Health + Hospitals, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth and Temple Health told…
DSOs are facing new challenges in 2026, driven by an evolving M&A environment and increased public scrutiny. However, the tide could turn later this year for market factors to lean in their favor. Ten updates: 1. Acquisitions have been the…
The payer business model built for the last twenty years can’t carry the next ten. At Becker’s Spring Payer Issues Roundtable, the leaders running health plans at Humana, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Shield of California, Elevance Health, Highmark, Oscar Health and…
The cost-cutting playbook that carried health systems through the last decade has run out of road. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, the CEOs running Sutter Health, CommonSpirit Health, Banner Health, Penn Medicine, Dartmouth Health, Inova, Boston Children’s Hospital and Ascension…
Behavioral health has moved from service line to operating model. At Becker’s Behavioral Health event, the leaders running behavioral health at Ascension, Advocate Health, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Cleveland Clinic, CommonSpirit Health, Hartford HealthCare, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Northwell Health and…