About $1.5 billion in annual Medicare payments to hospitals will be on the line Tuesday when the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case over whether the federal government shortchanges facilities that care for low-income seniors.
Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that expands the state’s clash with the Biden administration over immigration.
Officials with Scheurer Health and Harbor Beach Community Hospital announced this week that Harbor Beach Community Hospital will be joining the Pigeon-based healthcare provider. Under the plan, Harbor Beach Community Hospital will retain its name and identity while matching the look of the Scheurer brand. Harbor Beach and Scheurer will remain their own hospitals.
Black River Memorial Hospital and Krohn Clinic are merging to create Black River Health. The decision to merge comes in response to growing health challenges with Jackson County faring worse than the average county in Wisconsin for health outcomes, according to a press release from the health systems. The merger is effective Dec. 30, 2024.
UMass Memorial Health CEO Eric Dickson has a grim diagnosis for the state's health care system: Without a dramatic change, more closures will likely follow the recently shuttered Carney and Nashoba Valley hospitals. Those two hospitals went dark in large part because of their for-profit ownership under the now-bankrupt Steward Health Care, which undermined their future by selling their real estate. But the message from the Worcester hospital chief to a small crowd of business leaders at the Chilton Club in Boston was sobering: Nonprofit hospitals in Massachusetts could soon face similar fates.