Under the impression they're choosing comprehensive health coverage, more consumers are purchasing "skimpy" health plans due to misleading websites, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Here are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking revenue cycle management expertise in the last week.

Unionized hospital workers at Toledo, Ohio-based Mercy Health-St. Vincent Medical Center are now in their third week of a strike, according to Cincinnati.com.

UnitedHealthcare, the health insurance arm of UnitedHealth Group, has once again been named the most valuable healthcare brand in the world by Brand Finance, a business valuation and strategy consultancy.

Most mergers and acquisitions professionals believe the M&A market is headed in a positive direction, even as political uncertainty could upend transactions, according to a recent Merrill Insight poll.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has signed definitive agreements to sell two Florida hospitals to Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare.

Less than two months after leaving his post as FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, MD, has been appointed as a special partner on New Enterprise Associates' healthcare investment team.

Most U.S. hospitals that reach Stage 4 on HIMSS Analytics' EMR Adoption Model do not experience EMR benefits they anticipated, even five years post-certification, according to a Chartis Group report.

Neuroscientist and psychiatrist Tom Insel, MD, is California's new "mental health czar" who will advise the governor on mental health issues, according to Los Angeles Times.

Hospitals, health systems, physician practices and healthcare organizations are experiencing increasingly complex revenue cycles, working with government and private payers as well as patients to collect. Here are more than 210 companies with revenue cycle management solutions in the healthcare space.

Despite a national guidance to limit episiotomies, a USA Today investigation found many hospitals are still performing the procedure.

McDonough District Hospital in Macomb, Ill., will close its senior behavioral health unit in June, the hospital's board of directors said May 21, according to NBC affiliate WGEM.

Detroit Medical Center has started layoffs of roughly 1 percent of its workforce, about 117 employees, Becker's confirmed.

Helix, a direct-to-consumer DNA sequencing startup based in San Carlos, Calif., is closing two of its four offices and has cut an undisclosed number of jobs, co-founder Justin Kao confirmed to Bloomberg this week.

Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich., is working to reopen its surgical center by May 24 after a small fire epupted at the facility, according to radio station WKZO.

Nearly two dozen states and cities are challenging a final rule issued by President Donald Trump's administration that makes it easier for healthcare workers to refuse to provide care contradicting their religious or moral beliefs, according to The Washington Post. 

In 2016, nonprofit hospitals were exempt from $9 billion in federal taxes due to their tax-exempt status, and provided $95 billion in total benefits to their communities, according to a new analysis.

Four of the top vendors that hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to 2018 ONC data.

Fannie Mae chose five organizations to receive contract awards under the housing finance firm's $10 million Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge, which is aimed at tackling social determinants of health.

The healthcare industry needs to address physician suicides and burnout, according to Edward Ellison, MD, executive medical director and chairman of Southern California Permanente Medical Group, based in Pasadena.