Hospitals in the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model reduced average Medicare payments for care episodes by $997 more for CJR episodes than for control group episodes during the first two performance years, an analysis reveals.

Air ambulance providers charge considerably more than what Medicare will pay for their services, according to a study published July 1 in Health Affairs.

Below are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking CFOs during the past week.

Michael Maron, president and CEO of Teaneck, N.J.-based Holy Name Medical Center, said he supports consistent pricing and price transparency in healthcare.

CMS has delayed for three additional months full implementation of Medicare outpatient prospective payment system claims edits for services provided by departments of hospitals and health systems.

Hospital revenue cycle leaders face an array of challenges, including ensuring payment for services and meeting patient demands related to billing and collections.

A federal judge was briefed July 1 on dueling motions for summary judgment in a lawsuit Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic filed against the IRS more than two years ago.

Six hospital and health system CFOs share their biggest challenges with Becker's:

Private equity's investments in the healthcare sector have become increasingly frequent and diversified in recent years — a trend that is likely to continue.

Change Healthcare President and CEO Neil de Crescenzo rang the Nasdaq closing bell June 27 to mark the Nashville, Tenn.-based healthcare technology company's entrance onto the public market.

The patient financial experience has a lasting impression on patients' overall perception of care quality and can determine whether patients return or recommend a hospital's service to someone else.

The Supreme Court siding with hospitals in a multibillion-dollar payment dispute and hospital closures were among the healthcare finance topics that piqued the interest of readers in June.

Healthcare stocks ticked up last week following the first Democratic presidential debates, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Bethesda, Md.-based Aledade, an organization that helps independent physicians band together to create ACOs, announced the launch of five new ACOs in North Carolina, Kansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Pennsylvania.

Washington state's law to protect patients from surprise medical bills will take effect July 28, according to NBC-affiliate TV station KING.

Philadelphia Academic Health System and a few of its subsidiaries, including Hahnemann University Hospital and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare has launched a systemwide policy requiring patients who will pay for their entire bill to pay 25 percent of the cost upfront before they can receive nonemergency medical services, according to Georgia Health News.

Three major for-profit hospital operators saw their stock prices rise last week.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health ordered the owners of Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia to take no steps toward closure until state regulators receive and sign off on a plan to shut down operations, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal.

The CFO of Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Hospitals signed off on an invoice that mistakenly greenlighted a contribution to a dark money political group, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to local news station WBTV.