The Madera (Calif.) County Board of Supervisors is looking into allocating half of its remaining American Rescue Plan Act funding to resume operations at Madera Community Hospital. The city's sole hospital for about 150,000 residents shut its doors just before the new year after Trinity Health's plan to buy it fell through. 

Employees at Las Vegas-based Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center have been notified of layoffs coming to the facility, which will transition to a freestanding emergency department, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Jan. 10.

Cash prices for COVID-19 screenings spiked in December during the tripledemic, according to the most recent U.S. Health Care Price Index released Jan. 10.

Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network has been forced to temporarily close its AHN Express Care East urgent care center in Harborcreek Township, Pa., due to a shortage of nurses, GoErie reported Jan. 10.

There are too many hospital projects chasing too little government funding in Wyoming, a  hospital CEO has complained after an application for federal funding for expansions and updates at his location was tabled, a Jan. 10 Buffalo Bulletin report said.

Health system mergers and acquisitions dipped in the second half of 2022 as hospitals looked to address urgent challenges including staff shortages, inflation and the rising costs of labor, supplies and energy. 

An original gubernatorial proposal for a public health budget of $243 million annually in Indiana may have been lowered, but Hoosier state legislators are focusing on healthcare as a top priority in the new 2023 session, according to a Jan. 10 report in the Indiana Capital Chronicle.

Ventra Health has appointed Steven Huddleston CEO following the retirement of Mike O'Boyle. 

Hollister, Calif.-based Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital is closing its home health services department effective Jan. 31. 

Nonprofit hospitals typically have strong liquidity relative to debt repayment obligations and business risk, but that is beginning to change as investment losses and rising expenses are eroding financial reserves, according to a Jan. 10 report from Fitch.

Revenue cycle management company Wakefield & Associates is rebranding as Wakefield. 

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Jan. 9 detailed a billion-dollar, multi-year plan to overhaul mental healthcare across the state.

Congress must listen to working families and overhaul a "dysfunctional" healthcare system where there is a massive labor shortage and excessive profit for some, says Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders, incoming chair of the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP).

Here are 10 revenue cycle management mergers and acquisitions reported by or shared with Becker's since Aug. 16: 

Expectations for one-year-ahead inflation continued to decline in December, decreasing by 0.2 percentage point to 5 percent, its lowest level since July 2021, according to a survey released Jan. 9 by the New York Federal Reserve.

A return to financial health involving "decisive and measured actions" could take multiple years, management at Minneapolis-based Fairview Health warned as the healthcare system revealed multimillion-dollar losses in 2022.

Struggling Greenwood (Miss.) Leflore Hospital, which continues to stay open after its planned takeover by the University of Mississippi Medical Center fell through late last year, is accepting donations from concerned local citizens.

Hundreds of hospitals in the U.S. are on the ropes financially, largely due not to fiscal mismanagement but inadequate reimbursements, according to the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. 

Revenue cycle management company Savista has named Karen Moore senior director of revenue cycle solutions.

Kaufman Hall, a leading consultant group in the healthcare industry, has acquired Gist Healthcare, a consulting firm that provides guidance to healthcare leaders and has a strong presence in media content. The transaction closed Jan. 1.