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Fierce Healthcare Industry News & Policy
Fierce Healthcare provides critical business news to executives across the industry, including providers, payers and technology innovators.
List of 2025 medical, healthcare and health tech conferences
Jan 2, 2025 · April. April 7-8: NCQA Health Equity Forum (Baltimore) April 8-9: 25th Annual Employee Health Care Conference (New York City) April 13-15: MGMA Focus | Financial Conference (Washington, D.C ...
2025 Outlook: Rising expenses will pressure hospital finances
Jan 1, 2025 · Outpatient revenue has been steadily increasing over the past few years, indicating a shift in how patients seek care. Additionally, discharges per calendar day increased from September 2024 to ...
Ardent Health buys 18 urgent care clinics as it plots expansion
Jan 3, 2025 · Ardent Health is making good on its ambitions to grow its footprint in ambulatory care through acquisitions. The for-profit system kicked off 2025 by buying 18 urgent care clinics across New ...
Here's what the CEOs of major payers earned last year - Fierce …
The CEOs of the six major national insurers earned a combined $122,970,614 in total compensation in 2023, according to annual proxy filings.
Calendar of healthcare conferences in 2024
May 1, 2024 · March. March 8-12: SXSW Health and MedTech Track 2024 – entire SXSW March 8-16 (Austin, Texas) March 11-15: 2024 HIMSS Global Health Conference (Orlando) March 11-12: Fierce BD&L Summit for Life ...
Congress averts shutdown, healthcare programs expire April 1
UPDATED 11:55 a.m. ET Dec. 23. Winners and losers of CR bill. The continuing resolution will surely feel like an abject disappointment to many in healthcare. Only telehealth extension advocates ...
Specialty care network rebrands as Lantern, adds infusion care
Sep 17, 2024 · Lantern offers supplemental healthcare benefits for employers, including access to specialty networks, bundled payments and centers of excellence. The company started with a surgical benefit ...
Elevance Health to scoop up value-based care company CareBridge
Oct 28, 2024 · Elevance Health plans to acquire home health company CareBridge in a deal that's reportedly worth $2.7 billion. Elevance CEO Gail Boudreaux told investors on the company's earnings call earlier ...
Astrana plots to expand its footprint with $745M deal for Prospect ...
Nov 11, 2024 · Astrana plans to acquire Prospect Health Plan, a California licensed healthcare service plan; Prospect Medical Groups in California, Texas, Arizona and Rhode Island; Prospect Medical Systems, a ...