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Scott Becker - 5 Healthcare News Stories We Are Following Today 7-14-26 · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast

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  - This is Scott Becker with the Beckers Healthcare
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  - Podcast.
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  - These are five of the stories that we're
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  - following today.
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  - We're coming to 07/14/2026.
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  - So so first,
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  - a reemergence
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  - of hospital m and a. A story today
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  - about 18 hospital deals, 7,700,000,000
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  - in revenues,
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  - m and a rebound continues, and and fasting
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  - to see that after at some point there
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  - wasn't that much of that.
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  - Second,
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  - article,
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  - 46 of the highest paid health care CEOs.
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  - This comes from the Wall Street Journal.
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  - It's article about all CEOs, and our team
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  - picked out the ones that are health care
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  - CEOs.
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  - And these are almost all CEOs from pharma,
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  - device, and payers.
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  - None of the top 46 in their list
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  - of whatever number it was
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  - were, in fact,
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  - health system CEOs and leaders,
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  - more CEOs from pharma device payers.
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  - So as people take shots at hospital CEO
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  - pay, they're really looking at the wrong place.
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  - Hospital CEOs have a very, very challenging job,
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  - lots of issues, lots of challenges. It is
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  - what it is. The third,
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  - Georgia CEO hospital
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  - hospital CEO
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  - details financial
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  - recovery amid an investigation
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  - into an employee complaint.
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  - Apparently, the CEO of the system
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  - wrote a complaint about the AR, HR,
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  - and behaviors of the CEO. As far as
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  - I could tell, the CEO
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  - herself is working really hard to navigate a
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  - challenging situation in a in a system where
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  - they've got financial challenges. So,
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  - you know, at least from what I can
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  - read so far, I I think the CEO
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  - is probably in the right spot, but I
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  - could be proven wrong over time. That's for
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  - sure.
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  - Fourth article we're following is a labor issue.
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  - It it well,
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  - like, labor turnover retention issue. A great article
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  - on what health system leaders can learn from
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  - Costco's 7% turnover rate.
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  - Costco has this incredibly low turnover rate. Just
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  - fantastic.
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  - And there's a story about
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  - what of those things could be applied to
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  - health care and could be used for for
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  - hospitals and health systems.
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  - Finally, fifth,
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  - the CEO of CVS says something we all
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  - sort of know.
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  - GLP one economics simply aren't there yet for
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  - employers. This is in terms of GLP ones
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  - in obesity.
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  - And and I think what's really happened is
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  - the more we get this out of the
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  - employer pay, the insurance pay situation,
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  - the more that price competition actually happens and
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  - the better that prices go down. This whole
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  - concept of paying for GLP ones, obviously, for
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  - diabetes needed, I'd like it for obesity, but
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  - the numbers don't work because the pharma companies
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  - charge and the insurance companies too much.
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  - ES semiglutides,
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  - ES compounders
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  - attack the private market.
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  - You get these things down to 100 to
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  - $200 a month versus the 800 to $1,000
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  - a month that they were at. And and
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  - I think the c v s c o
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  - eight says it correctly.
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  - The economics aren't quite really there, but he
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  - dodges the bigger question. He probably has to
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  - because CVS is Aetna. It's a huge insurer.
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  - The reality is for so many of these
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  - health care services today,
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  - inflation goes down the more we can get
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  - these things out of essentially the insurance and
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  - health system system. In any event, thank you
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  - for listening to the Becker's Healthcare podcast. We
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  - hope you enjoy these five quick stories we're
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  - following today at Becker's Healthcare.
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  - Please feel free to text Scott Becker anytime.
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  - (773)
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  - 766-5322.
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  - I would love to hear your thoughts on
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  - these short episodes that give you a sort
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  - of rundown of five of the quick stories
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  - we're following. Thank you so much for listening.