The California Department of Public Health has approved temporary rule waivers for 23 hospitals after a nurse-patient ratio rule went into effect June 1, Mercury News reported June 29. The new regulations require 35 psychiatric hospitals to assign one nurse…
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When clinicians don’t trust clinical decision-support tools, they don’t just ignore them. They spend extra time verifying and correcting AI-generated recommendations undermining productivity and compromising the very quality-of-care gains these tools are meant to deliver. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting,…
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Emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts declined overall from Jan. 1, 2021 to Dec. 31, but adolescents continued to have the highest visit proportions and adults age 26 and older saw increases, according to a CDC study published June…
The New Mexico Department of Justice opened a formal investigation into allegations that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration knowingly allowed fentanyl pills to be distributed in New Mexico communities. Attorney General Raúl Torrez said the investigation followed Gov. Michelle Lujan…
Real-time medication price transparency is no longer a someday ambition. As of 2025, 75 percent of hospitals had integrated real-time prescription benefit information for at least some payers, CMS has required Medicare Part D plans to support these tools since…
Jul 16, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
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- Christie Callahan, Chief Product Officer, Interra Health
- Lauren Hackenberg, Senior Director, Provider Capabilities, Optum
Federal prosecutors and auditors are targeting Medicaid behavioral health fraud on multiple fronts, with billions in alleged false claims under scrutiny nationally and two states alone facing audit findings of more than $123 million combined in potentially improper payments for…
Scarcity has always shaped healthcare. “Triage” assumes there isn’t enough to treat everyone at the level they need. “Population health” often means concentrating limited resources on the highest-risk sliver of a panel. But a new generation of clinically safe AI voice…
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Most AI implementations don’t fail because of the technology. They fail because organizations focus on deployment instead of behavior change. Clinicians don’t resist innovation — they resist disruption that doesn’t clearly improve patient care or make their day easier. In…
Jul 30, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Matthew Brown, DSO Partnerships, Dandy
- Dr. Layla Lohmann, Co-Founder and Clinical Director, Apex Dental Partners
Lansing, Mich.-based University of Michigan Health-Sparrow received the largest gift in its history to support a new behavioral health hospital. The Alton L. and Janice M. Granger Charitable Gift Fund’s gift will help finance the construction, renovation and operation of…
The U.S. could face a steep decline in its adult psychiatry workforce over the next decade, with workforce adequacy projected to fall to 42.8% by 2037 as psychiatrist supply shrinks and demand rises, according to a study published May 5…