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Discover the impact of consolidation on healthcare from the perspectives of three industry leaders in Houston, Chicago and Atlanta.

The healthcare industry continues to evolve in 2024, with ASCs facing a growing number of external challenges including anesthesia shortages, prior authorization pushback and consolidation in the marketplace. 

For folks of “a certain age” (which I am not telling if I do or do not fall into that category), prolific songwriter and performing artist Carole King provided what could be the official soundtrack to their adolescence.  For those who have not quite crossed that age threshold, you would be surprised how well her music has endured and firmly taken its place in the American songbook, speaking to multiple generations with songs of hope, love and all that comes after.

Mary Susan Flaherty, 77, of St. Paul, Minnesota passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on February 3, 2024, after a long battle with cancer.

"Discover why 26 healthcare facilities have chosen not to reimplement mask mandates, despite rising cases of COVID-19 and respiratory illnesses, and how they ar

As 2023 comes to a close and healthcare leaders nationwide are setting their sights on 2024, there are a few key trends that the majority of industry professionals are focusing on.  

An Iowa man pleaded guilty to wire fraud for using his position as an insurance agent and annuity salesperson to defraud elderly individuals out of their

A Kansas commission will decide whether a historic bed-and-breakfast in Abilene is a home or a business. From Dion Lefler:

At least 30 states are reinstating coverage for children wrongly removed from the rolls under Medicaid redetermination, the federal government reported. It’s just the latest hiccup in the massive effort to review the eligibility of Medicaid beneficiaries now that the program’s pandemic-era expansion has expired. And federal oversight of the so-called unwinding would be further complicated by an impending government shutdown. Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Cal...

Federal officials have instructed at least 30 states to reinstate Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program coverage for half a million people, including children, after an errant computer program wrongly determined they were no longer eligible.