CMS released its annual Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule Aug. 1, which raises Medicare payment rates for acute care hospitals. 

From OhioHealth laying off revenue cycle employees, to Memorial Hermann Health System investing in EnableComp, here are eight RCM stories Becker's reported in July: 

During the latest session of North Carolina's General Assembly, the state House of Representatives and Senate passed separate bipartisan legislation that will move the state closer to expanding Medicaid coverage, WFAE reported July 31. 

The COVID-19 public health emergency declaration must continue past October to minimize disruptions to the "increasingly fragile healthcare delivery system," the American Hospital Association wrote in a July 29 letter to HHS. 

New ownership could be possible for Greenwood (Miss.) Leflore Hospital and the Gautier, Miss.-based Singing River Health System, according to a July 31 report from The Meridian Star.

Below are 10 hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking CFOs.

Operating margins were up in June compared to May, but expenses remain at historic highs, leaving hospitals and health systems with cumulatively negative margins, according to Kaufman Hall. 

Nearly all Medicare beneficiaries surveyed are worried about inflation's impact on healthcare costs, according to a July 28 report from the private health insurance marketplace eHealth.

Ten hospitals or health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle management expertise.

Following a $29.8 million loss in operating revenue in the first quarter of 2022, Indianapolis based-Indiana University Health reported an income of $21 million in the second quarter of its fiscal year.

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals received a grant totaling $3.9 million from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, according to a July 26 press release.

Out-of-pocket costs paid by patients with employer-sponsored health plans rose between 2013 and 2019, before seeing a pandemic-related dip in 2020, according to a July 28 report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

CMS has only collected 55 percent of Medicare overpayments identified in HHS Office of Inspector General audits from eight years ago, the inspector general said this week. 

Maryville, Tenn.-based Blount Memorial Hospital has had five months of low patient admissions leading to large losses of revenue, The Daily Times reported July 28.

Baxter Regional Medical Center will now be known as Baxter Health, a first step in its rebranding, the Mountain Home, Ark.-based hospital said July 27.

CMS has released its annual payment updates for hospices, inpatient psychiatric facilities and inpatient rehabilitation facilities for fiscal year 2023. 

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced July 27 that his office has negotiated an extension to the regulatory agreement that the Attorney General’s Office holds with all nonprofit hospitals in the state.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, which operates 83 hospitals, saw revenues decrease in the second quarter of this year and ended the period with a net loss. 

Inflation-adjusted healthcare spending declined in the U.S. for the first time in 60 years, according to a July 27 report from Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Altarum.

The Federation of American Hospitals, which represents investor-owned or managed hospitals, is urging HHS "in the strongest terms possible" to renew the COVID-19 public health emergency through 2023.