Workforce & Careers
Health care added 16,700 payroll jobs as sectors diverged
Ambulatory care and hospitals added payroll jobs while nursing and residential care lost jobs in September.
Robin Morgan · 6 min · Published October 8, 2026
Hospitals & Providers
Transfer visits had longer reported ED medians at rural emergency hospitals
A paired-facility analysis finds longer total ED duration for transfer visits, with the result intact after a reporting-period sensitivity check.
Jamie Ellis · 7 min · Published October 8, 2026
Pharma & Devices
Open Payments is a map of financial relationships—not a misconduct list
How to read general, research, and ownership records without mistaking disclosure for a verdict.
Taylor Reed · 8 min · Published October 8, 2026
Workforce & Careers
Health care and social assistance openings fell to 1.359 million
JOLTS reports a month-end stock of 1.359 million openings and a separate monthly flow of 703,000 hires for the combined sector.
Robin Morgan · 6 min · Published October 8, 2026
Economics & Policy
Private health care and social assistance averaged 55,519 more establishments in 2025
QCEW annual averages show growth across private ambulatory care, hospitals, residential care, and social assistance.
Robin Morgan · 7 min · Published October 8, 2026
Workforce & Careers
An NPI identifies a provider. It does not prove access.
A field-by-field guide to what provider registry records establish—and what they cannot.
Robin Morgan · 7 min · Published October 8, 2026
Hospitals & Providers
Original Medicare office-visit volume shifted between common codes
Beneficiary-day services rose for 99214 while falling for 99213 in Original Medicare fee-for-service.
Jamie Ellis · 7 min · Published October 8, 2026
Research & Access
ClinicalTrials.gov location counts do not measure open seats
A location-status-aware analysis shows why overall recruiting labels can overstate local trial access.
Jamie Ellis · 8 min · Published October 8, 2026
Pharma & Devices
One device recall event can produce many FDA report records
The 2025 openFDA extract had 2,908 records but 972 event IDs, a crucial denominator distinction.
Taylor Reed · 7 min · Published October 8, 2026
Pharma & Devices
FDA listed 45 novel drug approvals through September 2026
The year-to-date CDER list reached 45 through September 28, but it is not a count of every FDA drug action.
Taylor Reed · 7 min · Published October 8, 2026
Workforce & Careers
Health-care hourly earnings rose 1.8% while weekly hours stayed flat
Gross average hourly earnings reached $39.90 in August while average weekly hours remained 33.4, an industry measure that does not describe every occupation or take-home pay.
Robin Morgan · 6 min · Published October 8, 2026
Workforce & Careers
Every state added private health-care and social-assistance jobs in 2025
QCEW annual averages show positive private-sector employment change in all 50 states and D.C., led numerically by California.
Robin Morgan · 7 min · Published October 8, 2026
Hospitals & Providers
Proprietary ownership was rare among CMS-listed critical access hospitals
Only 63 of 1,382 critical access hospital records were proprietary, compared with 647 of 3,107 acute care hospital records.
Jamie Ellis · 6 min · Published October 8, 2026
Research & Access
Population adjustment reshuffled state clinical-trial listing counts
California led raw study–state listings while D.C. led after population adjustment; neither measure establishes sites, seats, or patient access.
Jamie Ellis · 7 min · Published October 8, 2026
Pharma & Devices
Firm-initiated actions accounted for 948 of 972 device recall event IDs
Event-level deduplication shows 97.5% of 2025-report-date device recall event IDs were labeled firm initiated.
Taylor Reed · 6 min · Published October 8, 2026