After several years of rapid consolidation, healthcare mergers and acquisitions lulled in 2019, with several major deals falling apart in the early stages of talks.

Caitlin Zulla has replaced Tony Kilgore as CEO of SCA, one of the largest ambulatory surgery center operators in the country.

Gregory Adams has replaced the late Bernard Tyson as chairman and CEO of the Oakland, Calif.-based integrated not-for-profit health system.

While training employees to use digital tools will be a top priority for providers in 2020, many still question the return on investment.

Operating cash flow will grow 2% to 3% in 2020, driven by the highest Medicare reimbursement rate increases in around a decade. As a result, Moody's Investors Service has changed its outlook for not-for-profit hospitals from negative to stable.

Children whose families received a housing voucher to move to low-poverty neighborhoods were admitted to the hospital nearly 16% less, curbing annual inpatient spending by 24%.

Halamka will be leaving his post as executive director of the Health Technology Exploration Center at Beth Israel Lahey Health in Boston to join the Rochester, Minn.-based health system as the president of Mayo Clinic Platform.

Medicare beneficiaries in rural areas had a 40% higher preventable hospitalization rate and a 23% higher mortality rate compared with their urban peers, a new study found.

The number of home health agencies that use telehealth will double over the next two years while therapy services will stagnate, according to a new survey.

The National Nurses United said the agreement includes provisions ensuring appropriate nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, a unified pay scale with guaranteed raises and participation in monthly meetings to discuss patient care.

Total uncompensated care and reimbursement shortfalls averaged $12.8 million in 2018, up from $11.2 million in 2015, according to new Definitive Healthcare data.

Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked what data the health system is sharing with the technology company and how it is being used.

While some healthcare executives argue that patients should direct their own care, skeptics contend that consumers aren’t equipped to make the best decisions.

The nurses, who went on a brief strike Sept. 20, continue to protest alleged chronic understaffing that has impeded patient care.

Maryjane Wurth will be replaced by Michelle Hood, the chief executive at Northern Light Health in Brewer, Maine.