JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Ballad Health’s financial picture in the second half of 2022 hasn’t been pretty, and CEO Alan Levine said multiple factors leave hospital systems facing a very challenging ...

Ballad is a nonprofit system formed in 2018 through a merger of two legacy health systems, Mountain States Health Alliance and Wellmont Health System. Currently, Ballad operates 19 hospitals in ...

Despite years of patient complaints and quality-of-care concerns, Ballad Health—the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly—will now be held to a lower standard by the Tennessee government ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A long-sought increase in TennCare hospital reimbursement rates is official, and it’s changed Ballad Health’s annual financial results for the year that ended June 30 to ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Ballad Health lost $45.4 million from operating its healthcare system in the six months through Dec. 31, according to a financial report. The hospital system’s CEO told ...

And Ballad could score as low as 55 out of 100 without the monopoly facing a risk of being broken up, according to the new agreement. The agreement also increases how much of Ballad’s annual score is ...