Site-neutral payment policies are a hot topic every year across the healthcare industry and in Congress. Becker's has compiled the latest updates and policy changes leaders should know in 2024.

As financial pressures continue across the healthcare industry, more hospitals and health systems are turning to Chapter 11 protection to ensure financial stability and uninterrupted patient care.

Telehealth doesn't increase the prevalence of low-value care, a new study found.

Health systems are beginning to transition their IT organizations to the cloud, with two of the most common options being AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Alhambra, Calif.-based Astrana Health has entered into a $745 million definitive agreement to acquire certain assets and businesses from Los Angeles-based Prospect Health System.

A former Arlington, Va., resident has been sentenced to two years in prison for breaching the EHR of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Cape Girardeau, Mo.-based Mercy Hospital Southeast will soon become a teaching hospital, hosting clinical rotations for medical students at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.

University of Louisville and Murray State University signed a nonbinding letter of interest Nov. 7 to explore the feasibility of opening a new four-year regional medical school campus in Kentucky, the Murray Ledger & Times reported Nov. 8.

President-elect Donald Trump has named Susie Wiles, his senior campaign adviser, as his White House chief of staff, multiple news outlets reported.

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health named Kathryn Ashby vice president of finance.

The FTC under the Biden administration has been tough on big mergers and monopolies while favoring pro-worker policy changes, including a ban on noncompete agreements.

Bangor, Maine-based Northern Light Acadia Hospital tapped Samantha Foss, DNP, RN, as vice president of nursing and patient care services, The Piscataquis Observer reported Nov. 8.

By mid-November, Baxter expects its North Cove facility in Marion, N.C., to reach about 50% of the site's total production prior to Hurricane Helene-related flooding, according to a Nov. 7 update. 

Ransomware attacks at big health systems declined in the first half of 2024.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health reported a net income of $26.3 million (1.8% margin) in the third quarter, up from $20.8 million (1.5% margin) in the same quarter last year. 

Westchester Medical Center Health Network, a nine-hospital system headquartered in Valhalla, N.Y., is laying off about 130 people primarily in corporate and administrative roles, a spokesperson for the system confirmed to Becker's.

Members of the University Professional and Technical Employees at the University of California San Francisco are set to strike Nov. 20 and 21. 

The CDC identified four dairy workers with antibodies for H5N1 who did not experience any symptoms, according to a Nov. 7 CDC telebriefing.

GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro might influence the volume of all-cause hospital admissions and bariatric surgeries, two studies suggest. 

Effective Jan. 6, Gem Gibbons, BSN, RN, will become chief nursing officer at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center in New York.