Cancer patients are increasingly using crowdsourcing websites to pay for medical travel, alternative treatments — and even funeral expenses, according to a new University of California-San Francisco study.

Is your A/R operation draining profits? In the past decade, amid a perfect storm of rising healthcare costs, sweeping regulatory activity, dwindling insurance payouts, and other pressures, the ground beneath hospitals and other large healthcare providers has shifted dramatically.

Quorum Health's decision to close MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island, Ill., has drawn mixed reviews, according to The Beverly Review.

After 30 years in healthcare, Mike Simms still gets excited about his work.

The University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville is among the latest healthcare organizations that have come under fire for suing former patients over medical debt.

Houston-based Nobilis Health received a delisting notice from the New York Stock Exchange, and its CFO and chief legal officer have resigned, according to the Houston Business Journal.

Hospitals across the country are gearing up for a fight to once again delay the cuts to the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program slated to take effect next month, according to ABC-affiliate WWTI. 

Here are seven health systems with strong operational metrics and solid financial positions, according to recent reports from Moody's Investors Service, Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings.

A class-action lawsuit alleging Sutter Health violated California's antitrust laws by using its market power to overcharge patients is slated to open Sept. 23, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The nonprofit hospital median operating revenue growth rate reached 5.5 percent in fiscal year 2018, topping the 5.4 percent expense growth rate for that period, according to data from Moody's Investors Service.

In a position statement released Sept. 9, a trade and professional association emphasized the importance of urgent care centers and advocated providing them with fair payer reimbursement.

HHS' Office of Inspector General estimates Illinois paid at least $4.6 million in Medicaid benefits for people who had died from October 2015 through September 2017.

In a recent press release, Medical Reimbursements of America, a Revecore Company and leader in specialized revenue cycle management solutions, released its 126th sprint of AcciClaim®, its proprietary claim management technology first introduced in 2014.

Dorothy Steed, a revenue cycle consultant in Atlanta, recently shared a tip with Medical Economics for avoiding claim denials. 

University Hospitals in Cleveland has agreed to provide a courtesy refund to a patient who signed up for one year of the health system's membership-based concierge service and later canceled, according to The Plain Dealer.

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

Virginia hospitals and physicians are speaking out against a state regulatory agency's proposed rules to enforce surprise-billing legislation, according to The Roanoke Times.

U.S. patients have been using Groupons to keep their medical costs down — a trend that elicited shock and dismay from the medical community on Twitter, according to a Kaiser Health News report. 

Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia was slated to close Sept. 6, but the closure has been pushed back one week, according to CBS Philly.

Florida regulators intend to hit Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital with $804,000 in fines for infractions ranging from failure to secure oxygen tanks to their carts to infection control issues, according to the Tampa Bay Times.