CMS has provided ICD-10 Procedure Coding System updates for fiscal year 2020 that include 2,056 deletions.

Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., has received a $7 million donation from local philanthropists Terri and Jerry Kohl, the founders of accessories company Brighton Collectibles, hospital officials announced Aug. 14.

CMS has provided ICD-10 Procedure Coding System updates for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2019, and ending Sept. 30, 2020.

Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health said it improved financial and quality performance in fiscal year 2019 as the health system continued to invest in staff and the region.

New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ended the first six months of 2019 with higher revenue and operating income than in the same period a year earlier, according to unaudited financial documents.

Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings seeking revenue cycle management expertise in the last week:

Joette Derricks, a Baltimore-based healthcare compliance and revenue integrity consultant, shared three  tips with Medical Economics on how to prevent claim denials due to unmet "incident to" billing requirements.

Financially struggling Vermont hospitals are asking state regulators to increase their patient revenue growth and the rate they charge insurers, according to VTDigger.

Greensburg, Pa.-based Excela Health is addressing an error that resulted in about 800 patients being sent refund checks that were sometimes hundreds of dollars more than what they should have been, according to TribLive.com.

Seattle Children's hospital is no longer at risk of losing its Medicare and Medicaid funding, according to The Seattle Times.

Berkshire Hathaway increased its stake in Amazon 11 percent in the second quarter, according to multiple news reports.

A California firm has said it would increase its bid to $60 million for Philadelphia-based Hahnemann University Hospital's more than 550 residency slots if bidding was renewed, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry and Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, W.Va., will lay off about 1,200 employees when they close in October, according to The Intelligencer.

Astria Health, a three-hospital health system based in Sunnyside, Wash., is closer to its goal of getting out of bankruptcy after switching billing companies, CEO John Gallagher told the Yakima Sunrise Rotary Club, the Yakima Herald-Republic reported.

Toni Elhoms, a Denver-based provider coding and education consultant, shared four tips with Medical Economics for preventing claim denials due to incorrect evaluation and management code levels.

A new study debunks the theory that the United States' healthcare spending is high because it doesn't invest enough in social services.

New York City Council is considering a bill that would establish a patient-advocate office for city residents to file complaints about anything related to healthcare facilities, providers or insurance, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Efforts to make healthcare prices more transparent are gaining steam at the federal level.

Jamestown (Tenn.) Regional Medical Center, which abruptly shut down in June, is currently barred from billing Medicare and Medicaid. If the hospital reopens, its billing privileges may not be reinstated, according to WBIR-TV.

From reimbursement landscape challenges to dwindling patient volumes, many factors lead hospitals to file for bankruptcy.