In late April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established new staffing standards for long-term care (LTC) facilities, mandating a minimum of 3.48 hours of nursing care per patient per day, with 33 minutes of that care from a registered nurse, at least one of whom must be always on site.

In honor of Pride Month, the graphic highlights the inequities many members of the LGBTQ+ community report facing when accessing healthcare services.

In this week’s graphic, we take stock of digital health funding and the fate of several digital health startups that went public during the funding boom of 2021.

This week’s graphic looks at the plethora of state-level mergers and acquisitions (M&A) oversight laws that are now in place, part of a recent trend that adds further scrutiny to healthcare consolidation.

Following the US Senate Finance Committee’s recent white paper on Medicare physician payment reform, the graphic shows how Medicare payments to physicians have not kept pace with inflation.

A new study from the American Cancer Society revealed a startling phenomenon in colorectal cancer: cases are trending younger while the severity of diagnoses is increasing.

After peaking in 2021, the average hospital’s registered nurse (RN) turnover and vacancy rates in 2023 have nearly returned to 2019 levels, at 18 percent and 10 percent respectively.

With the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issuing a final rule that would ban noncompete agreements nationwide, the graphic below is our attempt to categorize the current status of complex state noncompete laws that affect physicians.

This week’s graphic highlights data from the Department of Health and Human Services on the increased number of cyberattacks hitting healthcare providers.

Following this week’s news of Kaiser Permanente’s Risant Health subsidiary closing its acquisition of Geisinger, the graphic below provides a framework for thinking about health system scale.

With Walmart’s announcement last week that it plans to shutter its Walmart Health business, this week’s graphic takes stock of the company’s healthcare delivery journey over nearly the past two decades.