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

Arine gets $30M from Kaiser Permanente, Town Hall Ventures

4 days ago | modernhealthcare.com | Gabriel Perna |Bridget Early |Alex Kacik |Nona Tepper

What does the industry want from federal health IT regulation? Companies such as Epic, UnitedHealth Group and Oracle offered feedback on the state of data interoperability, AI regulation and telehealth flexibilities.
Top digital health funding: Autonomize AI, Zorro, Ellipsis Health

2 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Brock Turner |Hayley DeSilva |Alex Kacik |Nona Tepper

Top executives to watch in 2025, where are they now? Several healthcare executives who were leading big organizations in January are either out of jobs or in different roles.
Adventist HealthCare, Howard University end acquisition talks

3 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers June 06, 2025 03:25 PM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Getty Images Adventist HealthCare will wind down its hospital management agreement with Howard University and end potential acquisition discussions, the organizations said Thursday.
Atlantic Health System names Saad Ehtisham as CEO

3 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home People June 05, 2025 03:33 PM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Atlantic Health System Saad Ehtisham, currently president of acute care operations for Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Novant Health, will begin his new role July 30.
FAH's Chip Kahn to retire in 2025. Here's what he's proudest of.

3 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home People June 06, 2025 08:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Federation of American Hospitals Chip Kahn, president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, plans to retire at the end of the year. Chip Kahn, president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, will retire at the end of the year, ending his 24-year run at the helm of the trade association.
Nebraska rural hospitals form clinically integrated network

3 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers June 05, 2025 10:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print MH Illustration/Adobe Stock/Cibolo Health The map shows 19 rural hospitals that joined the Nebraska High Value Network. Nineteen critical access hospitals in Nebraska have formed a clinically integrated network, the third coalition of its kind created over the past three months.
CMS removes emergency abortion guidance

3 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers June 03, 2025 04:16 PM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Associated Press The federal government removed guidance Tuesday that required hospitals receiving Medicare payments to provide emergency care, including potential abortions, for pregnant patients.
Sutter Health receives $110M gift from anonymous philanthropist

3 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers June 03, 2025 12:31 PM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Sutter Health Sutter Health is planning to build a new hospital and outpatient complex in Emeryville, California, by 2033. An anonymous philanthropist gave Sutter Health $110 million, which will help fuel the health system’s expansion plans.
Federal push for hospital drug manufacturing faces cost hurdles

3 weeks ago | modernhealthcare.com | Alex Kacik

Breadcrumb Home Providers June 05, 2025 05:00 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print MH Illustration/Adobe Stock High manufacturing costs could limit the federal government's efforts to increase pharmaceutical production across the U.S.An aging population with increasingly complex medical conditions is driving pharmaceutical growth.
Hospitals spent $18.3B managing violence in 2023: AHA report

4 weeks 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.