Buffalo, N.Y.-based Catholic Health has implemented a hiring freeze after posting an operating deficit of $16 million, according to Buffalo Business First.

Driscoll Health System's mission is to provide care to more children in need, and that's a goal its new CFO can get behind.

The University of Virginia in Charlottesville is reviewing a policy that allows holds on student accounts if medical debt to UVA Health System isn't paid, a university spokesperson told The Cavalier Daily.

A 24-year-old hoping to crowdfund a case of beer at ESPN's "College GameDay" instead sparked a major fundraiser for University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, The Washington Post reports.

Kevin Gaudette started serving as the chief revenue officer of Freeman Health System in Joplin, Mo., in August.

Montana officials are questioning healthcare prices in the state after recent research shed light on how much hospitals charge, according to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.

Stemming the closure rate of rural hospitals may depend in part on the financial support provided by hospital tax districts. 

Uncompensated healthcare — which includes charity care and bad debt — continues to increase at Wisconsin hospitals, according to Wisconsin Public Radio.

Richland, Wash.-based Kadlec health system is consolidating billing, a decision that could cost 20 employees their jobs, according to TV station KEPR.

As patient expectations for healthcare billing increasingly resemble consumer expectations found in industries such as retail, hospital leaders need to reassess long-held perceptions about how to collect payments from patients.

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

Here are five articles published in September about legislation to address surprise medical bills.

From reimbursement landscape challenges to dwindling patient volumes, many factors lead hospitals to close.

Calais (Maine) Regional Hospital entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sept. 17. The 25-bed hospital owes roughly $25 million to nearly 1,900 creditors, reports the Bangor Daily News.

There are 394 total Current Procedural Terminology code changes coming in 2020, including 248 new codes, 71 deletions and 75 revisions. Is your revenue cycle staff prepared? Becker's Hospital Review recently caught up with Mark Synovec, MD, chair of the American Medical Association's CPT editorial panel, to gain more insights into the code changes, which take effect Jan. 1.

Vermont's 14 hospitals have received state approval to receive $2.72 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2020, according to local news source VTDigger.org.

The House Education and Labor Committee has delayed a vote on surprise-billing legislation due to divisions among committee members, House aides and lobbyists told The Hill.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee released a draft proposal Sept. 17 for funding the state's Medicaid program through a block grant, according to The Tennessean.

A Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Sept. 17 that CMS overstepped its authority last year when it expanded a site-neutral pay policy that cut Medicare payments for hospital outpatient visits by hundreds of millions of dollars.

Nine organizations are calling on CMS to "expeditiously pay" the 5 percent bonuses to healthcare providers for participation in advanced alternative payment models.