Becker’s Behavioral Health

Health systems continue to face persistent physician staffing challenges. Coverage gaps, rising labor costs and ongoing reliance on locum tenens are creating operational and financial strain. Without a clear strategy, temporary staffing can become a default solution rather than a…

Persistent vacancies, rising contract labor costs and limited access to local nursing education are squeezing health systems, especially in rural and regional markets. In response, many organizations are working harder to recruit. A smaller number are taking a different approach:…

Every missed malnutrition diagnosis costs your hospital ~$10,000 in reimbursement — and puts patients at risk. Missing or under-documenting complex conditions like malnutrition, pressure injuries, acute kidney injury (AKI), delirium, etc. cause a system to treat a complex patient as “low-risk.”…

Hospitals spent $43 billion in 2025 chasing payments insurers already owed them. Payer tactics have grown more sophisticated, more automated and harder to detect — and many of the most financially damaging losses, including DRG downgrades, never trigger a formal…

Many hospitals still rely on generic clinical risk scores to flag high-risk patients. The challenge: those scores aren’t built to map to how CMS Star Ratings, HRRP, VBP and Leapfrog measure performance — which means quality improvement effort can be…