Babies continue to be delivered, surgeries continue to be performed, and there are even new jobs being filled at the bankrupt Mercy Iowa City community hospital.

Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital in Texas became the latest hospital to file for bankruptcy in 2023. Here is more information about that and nine other hospital bankruptcies in 2023: 

While healthcare revenues have increased, so have overall expenses, according to the latest Kaufman Hall "National Hospital Flash Report."

Columbus-based OhioHealth has reported full-year operating income of $303.7 million on revenue of $5.7 billion for the fiscal year ending June 30.

CMS has issued fines to 14 hospitals for alleged price transparency violations. 

A June report from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health found that county residents had more than $2.6 billion in outstanding medical debt as of 2021. Now county officials are considering a plan that could forgive more than $2 billion in medical debt. 

The New York Stock Exchange has notified Rite Aid that it is no longer in compliance with minimum listing requirements. 

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health sold its laboratory assets for an undisclosed amount to Labcorp.

Both outpatient and inpatient volumes improved in August versus the previous month, reversing some decline seen in July over June, according to the most recent "National Hospital Flash Report" from Kaufman Hall.

Optum is hiring more than 800 employees from Waukesha, Wis.-based ProHealth Care and will begin managing the health system's revenue cycle management, information technology, informatics, analytics and inpatient care management.

Months after Mississippi lawmakers approved a $103.7 million grant program to support the state's struggling hospitals, it turns out that many of them will be ineligible for such funds, according to an Oct. 3 Mississippi Today report.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has resumed processing disaster relief funding following Congress' passage of a continuing resolution that will fund the federal government through Nov. 17. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare made the temporary closure of its hospital in New Richey, Fla., permanent and consolidated services to two other hospitals in the region.

St. Louis-based Ascension, Chicago-based CommonSpirit and Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health are the three largest Catholic nonprofit healthcare systems in the country, operating a total of 370 hospitals.

The average hospital operating margin in August rose slightly from July and has increased year over year by 8 percent, according to the latest "Kaufman Hall National Flash Report."

Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital cuts are delayed for the duration of a continuing resolution passed by Congress to fund the government through Nov. 17, according to the American Hospital Association. 

CMS has rescinded a $677,440 fine against Washington, D.C.-based Saint Elizabeths Hospital after it was determined the hospital met exception criteria, an agency spokesperson told Becker's.  

In late 2022, CommerceHealthcare® published its annual assessment of leading issues and opportunities influencing providers. Healthcare Finance Trends for 2023 – Multiple Intersecting Challenges (Trends Report) offered eight themes in four overarching categories: Financial Patient financial experience Digital transformation Building trust

Oroville (Calif.) Hospital, which has faced questions over whether it can pay for a $178 million expansion project, has been downgraded to "B" amid operating challenges and violation of certain financial covenants, S&P Global said Sept. 29.

While many healthcare systems have been reporting reduced numbers on their contract labor, Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health highlighted a surge in those specific expenses when it released full-year fiscal results Sept. 29.