Advocate Aurora Health, a 28-hospital system with dual headquarters in Milwaukee and Downers Grove, Ill., plans to more than double its annual revenue by 2025, according to the Milwaukee Business Journal. 

Revenue cycle management company R1 RCM said Jan. 13 it will acquire patient scheduling solution provider SCI Solutions.

In its first two years, the Next Generation ACO model was not linked with reduced net Medicare spending, and had no effect on use or spending for hospitalizations, according to a new evaluation of the government program.

Williamson (W.Va.) Memorial Hospital, which is reorganizing through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, has laid off 20 employees, according to WYMT.

A new poll found more than a fifth of wealthy people pay an extra fee to directly access their primary care physician.

For nearly eight months, a North Carolina woman disputed a medical bill from Atrium Health Kings Mountain (N.C.) that arrived a year and half after she received care, according to local news station WBTV.

Astria Regional Medical Center in Yakima, Wash., closed its emergency room Jan. 13 and plans to completely shut down within the next few weeks. When the hospital closes, 463 employees will lose their jobs, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice.

Two organizations representing hospitals and health systems across the nation and several individual hospitals sued HHS Jan. 13 over site-neutral payment cuts for 2020.

The following seven hospital and health system credit rating downgrades occurred since Dec. 1. They are listed below in alphabetical order.

Park Nicollet Health Services, a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based HealthPartners, said its Next Generation ACO expanded care coordination and met or exceeded 23 quality benchmarks in 2018.

Huntsville (Texas) Memorial Hospital is set to get a new owner as a taxpayer acquisition of the acute care hospital is scheduled for Jan. 13, according to The Huntsville Item.

Collection costs are on the rise and managing these costs is among the issues keeping many healthcare leaders up at night.

Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute received a $16.5 million gift to support multiple myeloma research and care.

Thomas Health, a two-hospital system based in South Charleston, W.Va., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Jan. 10.

Hahnemann University Hospital's financial challenges came to a head last year when the Philadelphia-based academic medical center filed for bankruptcy in July and closed in September. 

Americore Health and its hospitals entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late December. The court combined the company's 11 separate bankruptcy cases into one joint filing on Jan. 9, according to the Beaver County Times.

Participation in federal ACO programs that include risk is growing, according to new data released by CMS Jan. 10.

Certain bundled payment models can lower costs and maintain or improve quality, but results on healthcare spending and use vary, especially by clinical episode type, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

Major health systems and hospitals have made headlines recently for how they are addressing charity care.

More than $70 million in Medicaid funding cuts could be coming for some Florida hospitals, according to the Tampa Bay Times.