1. CMS threatens to terminate HCA hospital's Medicare contract  Full story

2. Wisconsin health system fires VP accused in kickback scheme  Full story

3. Providence's operating loss shrinks to $94M through the first half of the year  Full story

4. Place and time shouldn't dictate patient communication. Learn why your COVID-19 bounceback needs asynchronous telehealth

5. 10 hospitals seeking CFOs  Full story

6. Surgeries canceled, ambulances diverted, IT system down at Ohio health system after ransomware attack  Full story

7. 3 knowns and unknowns in this 'messy' COVID-19 surge  Full story

8. CMS pays new hospitals 3x more for capital costs than older facilities: OIG  Full story

9. COVID-19 altered the retirement timetable. Read the 2021 Retirement Survey Report to learn how health systems can respond.

10. Healthcare's richest self-made women, per Forbes  Full story 

11. 2nd no-confidence vote at Arkansas hospital targets CEO  Full story 

12. 13 numbers that show how much telehealth visits cost your hospital  Full story 

13. Healthcare professionals are moving: It's time for radical recruitment strategies

14. UCLA, Inspira among latest to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for workers  Full story 

15. Daily COVID-19 stats, state-by-state:

• Test positivity rates
• Population fully vaccinated
• Vaccines administered
• Hospitalizations
• Death rates 

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