Below are five recent studies on Medicare spending that Becker's Hospital Review has covered in the past two months.

Shares of the large for-profit hospital operators have significantly outperformed the broader market this year, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

Nacogdoches (Texas) Memorial Health is being sold to a new entity called Lion Star Nacogdoches Hospital, effective July 1.

A policy called "leave to protect" helped a Rhode Island hospital finance chief avoid losing his job despite two layoff attempts, according to local news station WPRI. 

More than half of all emergency ground ambulance rides for privately insured Americans result in an out-of-network charge, according to a report published June 24 by the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker.

Hospitals penned a letter urging HHS to grant them more time to use the COVID-19 aid they received before June 30, 2020. 

Nonprofit and/or system-affiliated hospitals are more likely to publish their pricing information online in a consumer-friendly format than for-profit and/or independent hospitals, according to a study published June 19 in Medical Care Research and Review.

St. Mary's Healthcare in Amsterdam, N.Y., plans to initiate a voluntary separation deal and lay off a handful of employees, according to a June 23 article in The Recorder.

The healthcare sector is drawing interest from private-equity investors this year, with at least six deals announced in the last month.

Although CMS' price transparency rule took effect Jan. 1, several recent studies reveal a low compliance rate from hospitals across the U.S. 

Eleven hospitals and health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle management expertise.

S&P Global Ratings has revised the U.S. nonprofit healthcare sector outlook to stable from negative as the industry recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare intends to offer two batches of senior secured notes worth nearly $2.4 billion. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare's average activation fees can be up to $50,000 per patient, according to Kaiser Health News. 

Here are 10 hospitals and health systems with strong operational metrics and solid financial positions, according to reports from Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investors Service. 

Nine hospitals in the U.S. bill patients an amount more than 10 times higher than the actual cost of care, according to research from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University.

Just one of the top 20 hospitals ranked by the U.S. News & World Report displayed minimum negotiated charges on its website, suggesting that many hospitals still are not fully in compliance with the new CMS price disclosure rule, according to a study published June 21 in The American Journal of Managed Care.

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

Many hospitals and health systems today believe that denied and rejected claims are an unpredictable and unavoidable reality of providing healthcare, as well as being a revenue loss—a loss that can consume expensive manpower to overcome with little payoff.

About three dozen of the largest health systems in the U.S. have augmented their revenues by establishing an overseas presence, Kaiser Health News reported June 22.