New bipartisan bill aims to block Medicare pay cuts to docs
Physicians and other healthcare practitioners may get a pay boost in 2025 through a bipartisan bill introduced in Congress on...
Universal Health Services beats on revenue, misses on earnings
Universal Health Services (UHS) beat analysts’ estimates for third-quarter revenue as its top line grew 11%$3.963 billion to reach $3.96...
HCA bracing for $200M hurricane-related financial hit in Q4
HCA Healthcare took a $50 million financial hit in the third quarter due to the impacts of the back-to-back hurricanes...
Higher expenses, payer denials blunt CHS’ Q3 earnings
Community Health Systems, a 69-hospital system, posted $3.09 billion in third-quarter revenue, up slightly from a year ago, thanks to...
Hospitals’ August margins stay level despite high volumes
Though their margins have largely remained level, hospitals are starting to get a handle on length of stay and per-patient...
Last-minute IPPS update unwinds low wage index hospital policy
To comply with a summer court order, the Biden administration made a last-minute change to its inpatient rates that will...
Dems introduce bill boosting rural, safety-net hospital obstetrics pay
The chair of the Senate Finance Committee and several of his Democratic colleagues have introduced a bill that would increase...
Hippocratic AI banks $17M from Nvidia’s VC arm, other investors
Three months ago, startup Hippocratic AI released its first commercial product, a generative AI-based, task-specific healthcare agent. It also unveiled...
Lifepoint, Cadence tout success of RPM for rural patients
Remote physiologic monitoring company Cadence released data showing that rural patients at Lifepoint Health clinics who took part in Cadence’s...
HCA, UHS, Tenet aren’t worrying about Medicaid this November
As the country gears up for November elections, health systems say they are keeping an eye on, but not severely...
