Alex Kacik

Chicago

Senior Operations Reporter at Modern Healthcare

Senior reporter covering operations for @modrnhealthcr. You'll also find me playing with dogs and/or throwing a Frisbee.

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Articles

Hospitals spent $18.3B managing violence in 2023: AHA report

1 week ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik |Tim Broderick

Breadcrumb Home Providers June 01, 2025 11:01 PM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print MH Illustration/Getty Images Hospitals spend billions of dollars a year managing patients and staff who face assault, murder, suicide, shootings and other violent acts, according to a new report commissioned by the American Hospital Association.
Docs say 'broken promises' could slow private equity-linked deals

1 week ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers May 29, 2025 05:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Getty Images Private equity-backed companies promise to ease physicians’ administrative workloads, but doctors say many of those pledges have fallen short.
Fairview's James Hereford boosts revenue with specialty pharmacy

2 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers May 27, 2025 05:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Fairview Health Services James Hereford is the president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services. Fairview Health Services is looking to specialty pharmacy revenue and 340B drug discount savings to soften the blow of potential federal funding cuts.
$1 in Medicaid cuts costs rural areas $5: community hospital CEO

2 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers May 21, 2025 05:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Community Hospital Corp. Jim Kendrick is the President and CEO of Community Hospital Corp. Community Hospital Corp. President and CEO Jim Kendrick and other rural health executives took to Capitol Hill to lay out their views on the devastating impacts of cutting hundreds of billions from Medicaid.
How 24 rural hospitals look to improve value-based care

3 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers May 15, 2025 11:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print MH illustration/Cibolo Health/Adobe Stock The map shows the 24 member hospitals of the Yellowstone High Value Network. Two dozen critical access hospitals in Montana have created a clinically integrated network, following similar rural provider-led coalitions in other states.
Healthcare M&A slumped in Q1. Here's who's still making a deal

3 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik |Tim Broderick

Breadcrumb Home Mergers & Acquisitions May 13, 2025 01:39 PM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Adobe Stock Healthcare merger and acquisition activity slumped in the first quarter of 2025, according to statistics from Modern Healthcare Data+Insights.
Hospital support staff layoffs risk patient safety

3 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers May 21, 2025 05:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Adobe Stock Health systems are cutting support staff as they brace for potential federal funding cuts, a move that could limit hospital capacity and care quality.
Cleveland Clinic, Regent Surgical form ASC joint venture

1 month ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers May 07, 2025 12:02 PM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Bloomberg The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio on Nov. 14, 2020. Cleveland Clinic and Regent Surgical are working together to build ambulatory surgery centers. The nonprofit health system and the ASC developer announced a joint venture Wednesday.
Federal cuts to disaster preparedness funds jeopardize hospitals

1 month ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers May 05, 2025 11:18 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Bloomberg Vehicles at an intersection beginning to flood ahead of Hurricane Milton's expected landfall in St. Petersburg, Florida. The federal government's cuts to disaster preparedness grant funding will cost providers millions of dollars and potentially jeopardize patient care.
How drug tariffs could boost 340B discounts for hospitals

1 month ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Finance May 05, 2025 05:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print MH Illustration/Adobe Hospitals could get higher 340B drug discounts if tariffs kick in for pharmaceuticals, potentially adding fuel to policymakers’ efforts to curb the program’s growth.