Both sides in the antitrust case against Sutter Health now have until March 2021 to choose a monitor to oversee the health system's compliance with its settlement terms.

A new survey of health systems turned up major impacts on operating margins and volumes, and executives predict it'll be a long time before operations return to normal.

As COVID-19 cases climb across the country, nursing homes are preparing for another wave to hit their facilities.

If hospitals don't get Supreme Court review of the payment policies, they will remain in place.

In Episode #10 of "Next Up," Michael Dowling talks about his new book, "Leading Through a Pandemic: The Inside Story of Humanity, Innovation, and Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Crisis."

 

Modern Healthcare’s "Next Up" podcast is produced by CareContent, Inc. and hosted by CareContent’s CEO, Kadesha Thomas Smith.

 

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Despite the pandemic, buildings that cater to health practitioners are still hot properties.

Live updates from Modern Healthcare on the coronavirus outbreak and how COVID-19 is affecting the healthcare industry.

For all of the challenges the pandemic has posed for the industry, many executives believe there’s at least one silver lining: a greater emphasis on the need to adopt new payment and care delivery models.

Without surging sales of COVID-19 tests, the North Chicago medical device maker's 8% second-quarter revenue decline would have been twice as bad.

As the brunt of the virus has blown into the Upper Midwest and northern Plains, the severity of outbreaks in rural communities has come into focus.

All U.S. testing sites are legally required to report their results, positive and negative, to public health agencies. But state health officials say many rapid tests are going unreported, which means some new COVID-19 infections may not be counted.

A November ballot initiative to raise property taxes on big-business owners in California is drawing unconventional political support from healthcare power players and public health leaders.

From factory to syringe, the world's most promising coronavirus vaccine candidates need nonstop sterile refrigeration to stay potent and safe. But nearly 3 billion people live where there isn't enough temperature-controlled storage to support an immunization campaign for taming COVID-19.

Property liens are the hidden icebergs of patient medical debt, legal experts say, lying unseen, often for decades, before they surface to claim hard-won family savings or inheritance proceeds.

Methodist allegedly paid independent physicians more than $400 million for referrals, according to a whistleblower lawsuit.

AI-assisted surgery has been an area of gradual growth, laying the foundation for other possibilities including intra-operative clinical decision support and maybe even some automation.

Gilead used a supposed drop in hospital-stay duration to justify the drug's price.

The Supreme Court term could affect several areas in healthcare beyond the Affordable Care Act.

If laboratories deliver results from high throughput COVID-19 tests within two days, CMS will pay $100 rather than $75 per test.

Michigan's Trinity Health now plans to complete its systemwide Epic installation at the end of 2023, one year later than originally planned, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Involving nurses in decisionmaking helps health systems respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

Supporting the mental health of employees became a necessary part of surviving the pandemic for health systems.

Infection control specialists are concerned that misuse of antibiotics on COVID-19 patients on top of cuts to stewardship programs and pressure on infection control staff will only worsen the crisis.

Under the plan, trained staff from CVS and Walgreens will deliver the vaccines to each nursing home and administer shots. Needles, syringes and other necessary equipment will be included.

Legacy DMC, the not-for-profit board created to monitor the sales agreement with the owner of Detroit Medical Center, has triggered a clause in the 2010 contract that requires six-hospital DMC to negotiate a new charity and indigent care agreement.

A list of the nation's 50 most profitable not-for-profit hospital systems, ranked by total operating income for fiscal 2019.

Yale created a new staffing model relying on the competencies of nurses across the system to deal with a surge of COVID-19 patients this spring and summer.