Minnesota Nurses Association members at hospitals across the Twin Cities area and in Duluth have voted to ratify new contracts following four months of negotiations, according to a July 14 union news ...

CMS has released its Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule for 2026, which would raise Medicare outpatient payment rates next year. Five things to know: 1. Payment update. CMS proposed ...

Resource pool nurses working at Legacy Health hospitals in Oregon and Washington have voted to join the Oregon Nurses Association. The election — which concluded July 8 — covers more than 200 nurses ...

A federal court in Missouri has dismissed a legal challenge by drugmaker AbbVie to the state’s new 340B contract pharmacy law, which aims to regulate how pharmaceutical companies interact with ...

Kathleen Healy has been appointed chief legal officer of Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health. She stepped into the role July 14. In her new role, Ms. Healy will oversee legal, compliance, risk ...

California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would ease some of the nation’s strictest pharmacy staffing limits, allowing pharmacists to supervise more technicians at once. Under Assembly Bill 1503, ...

Google has created the Consumer Health Advisory Panel, a group of external experts tasked with guiding the company’s development of health-focused technologies. According to a July 15 news release ...

Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag became the first hospital in the U.S. to offer EsoGuard testing. The test is used by physicians to detect precancerous DNA changes in esophageal cells, helping to ...

Emily Chapman, MD, has been appointed president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota, effective Aug. 2, according to a health system news release shared with Becker’s. Dr. Chapman will ...

Chicago-based Shirley Ryan AbilityLab has tapped Cheri Blauwet, MD, as senior vice president and chief clinical officer.  Dr. Blauwet will step into the role in September, according to a July 11 news ...

The new IT chief of Browns Mills, N.J.-based Deborah Heart and Lung Center told Becker’s he plans to leverage data and AI to help providers make better clinical decisions while ignoring the “shiny ...

Five healthcare providers have been charged for fraudulent acts associated with cancer testing and care as part of a Justice Department investigation. The wider investigation identified what the ...