September 2023

Noah Schwartz Hospital officials told Becker’s they don’t view Costco’s entrance into healthcare as a threat to their business but as an opportunity for expanded care to reach new patients. Costco is joining competitors such as Walmart, Best Buy and Amazon in breaking into healthcare through a new partnership with virtual care marketplace Sesame. “Costco

Paige Twenter Physician input is crucial to making and enforcing tough business decisions as financial stressors on the healthcare industry grow in strength, according to leaders at Ballad Health. The system’s CEO, Alan Levine, told Becker’s that Ballad, like many other systems and hospitals, has had to reduce service lines. Some of these choices “are

Alexis Kayser (Email) Amid staffing shortages and dipping engagement levels, workforce retention is top-of-mind for many healthcare leaders. But oftentimes, the problem extends beyond frontline employees and into management — even C-suites. In the first 11 days of September, Becker’s recorded 11 executive exits from hospitals and health systems. The trend keeps pace with CEO

Advanced practice providers are the most requested specialty, according to a report from AMN healthcare. By Will Maddox  September 8, 2023|9:00 am Searches for nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified registered nurse anesthetists outpaced inquiries for family physicians last year, according to data compiled by Dallas-based healthcare staffing firm AMN Healthcare. The data reflects patients

— Here’s my legislative solution to put an end to this by Arvind Venkat, MD September 16, 2023 Venkat is an emergency physician and state representative. As an emergency medicine resident in the early 2000s, I cared for a patient in her early 60s with back pain. Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care