Silicon Valley startup Q Bio is attempting to offer "executive physicals," typically a part of in C-suite compensation packages, to a much broader audience, according to STAT.

As most hospital leaders know, the new CMS Price Transparency Final Rule requiring hospitals to disclose the rates they negotiate with insurers has been challenged in court. Four hospital associations and three independent hospitals are suing Health and Human Services (HSS), which oversees CMS, over the Final Rule’s statutory basis.

Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health has moved up the closure date for Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital in Ashland, Ky.

CMS issued a proposed rule Feb. 20, which includes a three-year extension of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model.

Shares of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems surged Feb. 20, the day after the company released financial results for the fourth quarter of 2019 and provided guidance for 2020.

After temporarily only accepting walk-in patients, ambulances are once again bringing patients to Jellico (Tenn.) Community Hospital. However, the hospital is still facing payroll problems, according to WVLT News.

One in 5 — or an estimated 50 million — Americans said they or someone in their household contributed to a crowdfunding campaign like those on GoFundMe to help pay for medical bills, according to a new survey from NORC at the University of Chicago.

Providers are concerned a new national policy from Aetna involving evaluation and management services will result in inappropriate down-codes.

Here are seven updates on Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare's executive recruitment, cost-cutting goals and service changes reported by Becker's Hospital Review since Jan. 1.

Miami-based Hygea Holdings, which owns physician practices, pharmacies and diagnostic facilities, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Feb. 19, according to Bloomberg Law.

An Iowa children's hospital is still waiting to receive Anheuser-Busch's $1 million matching gift pledged last year in response to a college football fan's viral beer money fundraiser, according to The Gazette.

Auditors determined Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital's significant losses in 2017 were largely attributable to the rollout of a new billing system. However, the hospital offered a different explanation to state health regulators, according to The Post Star.

Community Health Systems, which operates 99 hospitals in 17 states, saw revenue decline and its net loss swell in the fourth quarter, but the Franklin, Tenn.-based company's full-year loss shrunk.  

Top-selling pharmaceuticals are priced much lower abroad, leaving U.S. taxpayers and patients to foot the bill for biopharmaceutical research and development, according to the findings of a recent report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers. 

St. Louis-based Ascension saw revenues increase in the first half of its fiscal 2020, which ended Dec. 31, but the system ended the six-month period with lower operating income, according to unaudited financial documents. 

The owner and CEO of Americore Holdings, which owns and operates hospitals in three states, has agreed to hand operational control to a Chapter 11 trustee, according to recently filed court documents.

West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Rennova Health owes one of its board members $17.4 million, plus more than $1 million in interest payments, according to WBIR, which cited the company's latest financial filing. 

Despite an 8.3 percent increase in operating revenue year-over-year, Columbia, S.C.-based Prisma Health ended the first quarter of fiscal year 2020 with an operating loss, according to unaudited financial documents released Feb. 18. 

In a given year by 2016, almost 50 percent of adults with commercial insurance hadn't visited a primary care physician, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

A physician in Pittsburgh is offering uninsured patients direct access to primary care for $35 a visit, according to Penn Live Patriot News.