By Peter Justen – Hospitals across the country are facing mounting financial pressure, particularly in rural communities where margins are already thin and access to care is increasingly fragile. Rising uncompensated care, growing administrative complexity, and continued Medicaid uncertainty are placing additional strain on systems already operating with limited resources.
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By Dr. Mark Pratt – Healthcare organizations are moving quickly from AI pilots to AI-enabled workflows. What began as administrative chatbots and documentation support is now expanding into AI agents that can assist with scheduling, intake, patient communication, clinical documentation, revenue cycle tasks, and information retrieval across connected systems.
By Michelle Skinner RN BSN MBA – Hospital discharge is one of the most operationally complex moments in the patient journey and one of the most consequential determinants of capacity, patient flow, and continuity of care. Most hospitals are solving the wrong version of the problem.
By Chris Rogowski – Hospitals across the U.S. are hoping that 2026 ends much differently than it began. In January, a difficult financial operating environment carried over from the prior year, as expenses and bad debt grew, while patient volumes declined. Expenses per calendar day rose 5% year-over-year in January, pushed higher by rising costs for drugs and labor.
By Lee-Ann Ruf – When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched its Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) initiative in January 2026, more than 700 hospitals across the country took another significant step toward enacting value-based care.
By Noah Breslow – For a long time, hospitals could count on one thing: even when reimbursement was complicated, it was still mostly predictable. Care was delivered, claims were submitted, and while denials happened, revenue generally followed. That is no longer the case.
CMS recognizes several distinct hospital types, each defined by federal law and specific Medicare Conditions of Participation. Here are the breakdowns and resources for the major hospital categories.
By Sarah Jane Tribble, Arielle Zionts, & Maia Rosenfeld – In late December, President Donald Trump’s administration announced how much all 50 states would get under its new Rural Health Transformation Program, assigning them to use the money to fix systemic problems that leave rural Americans without access to good health care. Now, the clock is ticking.
By Ellie Gabel – How RTLS Are Tracking More Than Just Patients – Real-time location systems have become essential to modern hospital operations, providing instant visibility into the movement of patients, staff and assets across complex health care environments. While traditionally viewed as a patient-flow management tool, RTLS has evolved into a powerful engine for supply chain visibility.