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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UNM Health cuts executives amid federal funding disruption

4 days ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers April 23, 2025 01:37 PM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print iStock UNM Health cut 53 executive positions as the academic health system braces for federal funding reductions. The Albuquerque, New Mexico-based provider eliminated nonclinical jobs, some of which were vacant positions, a spokesperson said.
Healthcare expansion in North Carolina heats up

5 days ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers April 24, 2025 05:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print North Carolina health systems are vying for a limited number of hospital beds to try to expand their reach and keep up with population growth. Cone Health, Duke Health, Novant Health, Advocate Health and other North Carolina providers are pursuing acute care expansions.
NIH funding uncertainty might worsen physician shortage

1 week ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers April 18, 2025 05:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print MH Illustration/Adobe Stock Clinicians have largely avoided layoffs tied to federal research funding disruptions, but staffing cuts and federal funding uncertainty could exacerbate physician shortages.
26 Ohio, West Virginia hospitals band together on a clinically integrated network

1 week ago | crainscleveland.com | Alex Kacik

More than two dozen rural hospitals in Ohio and West Virginia formed a clinically integrated network, which providers are increasingly turning to instead of health system-led acquisitions. The Ohio High Value Network, announced Thursday, is a 26-hospital collaboration designed to provide the purchasing power, patient volume and clinical expertise needed to reduce costs, reinforce alternative payment models and boost care quality.
Ohio, West Virginia hospitals form clinically integrated network

1 week ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

More than two dozen rural hospitals in Ohio and West Virginia formed a clinically integrated network, which providers are increasingly turning to instead of health system-led acquisitions. The Ohio High Value Network, announced Thursday, is a 26-hospital collaboration designed to provide the purchasing power, patient volume and clinical expertise needed to reduce costs, reinforce alternative payment models and boost care quality.
FTC seeks information on possible 'anticompetitive' regulation cuts

1 week ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

The Federal Trade Commission wants the public to suggest regulations to revoke as part of President Donald Trump's far-reaching deregulation agenda. The FTC issued a formal request for information seeking suggestions for federal rules deemed 'anticompetitive' as a follow up to an executive order Trump signed last Wednesday. Submissions are due May 27.
Hospitals look to boost DSH payments via new lawsuits

2 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

A growing number of hospitals are working to bolster providers’ legal fight to increase Medicare reimbursement for treating low-income patients. Nearly 150 hospitals filed three lawsuits last week alleging the Health and Human Services Department's Provider Reimbursement Review Board wrongfully denied appeals to boost Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments, which are meant to support providers that treat many low-income patients.
Rural obstetric units using RMOMS grants see care improvement

2 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Rural hospitals are placing their bids for maternal health grants that some rural obstetric providers have been able to parlay into permanent funding. Rural hospitals that operate maternity wards rely on a patchwork of federal grants, including the Health Resources and Services Administration's Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies Program. The four-year grant offers up to $1 million a year to providers that set up collaborative maternal health networks.
Telehealth, outpatient building stretch provider investment

2 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Providers continue to invest in telehealth even as health systems pursue major brick-and-mortar expansions. Telehealth utilization has cooled since the COVID-19 pandemic, when providers and investors pumped billions of dollars into readying the virtual care infrastructure to try to keep up with burgeoning demand.
Hospital mergers decline in Q1 2025 amid tariff-funding concerns

2 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers April 08, 2025 12:07 PM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print MH Illustration/iStock Health systems announced five hospital merger and acquisition proposals in the first three months of the year, the lowest quarterly amount in more than a decade.