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U.S. News & World Report released its 2026-27 cancer hospital rankings, with the top five cancer centers unchanged from the previous year. The rankings also introduced a new regional cancer hospital category that expands recognition beyond the national top 50.

U.S. News expanded its 2026-2027 hospital rankings with new regional specialty evaluations in cancer and cardiovascular care while increasing recognition for regional hospitals. Rankings continued to emphasize risk-adjusted mortality, preventable complications, patient experience, and objective outcomes measures.

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“For EPs and other specialists, current FMV methodologies often fail to properly value their extensive training, technical expertise, and complex procedural skills, creating systematic undervaluation and artificial compensation constraints.” – Heart Rhythm

“A patient who is considered neutropenic, if they spike a low-grade temperature of 100.4, they can go from being alive and well to dead in three hours,” Palmeri testified, explaining why oncologists ultimately withdrew acute hematology services after documenting that nurses “were not checking temperature in the time frames that they’re supposed to check.”

After private equity acquisition, hospitals on average reduced salaries and staffing relative to nonacquired hospitals, notably in the EDs and ICUs, which are higher-acuity and staffing-sensitive areas.