Below are 10 hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking CFOs.

CMS has assigned Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups to six new ICD-10 diagnosis codes for COVID-19, which will go into effect Jan. 1.

Cleveland Clinic ended the third quarter of this year with higher revenue and operating income than in the same period a year earlier. 

The following 11 hospital and health system credit rating downgrades occurred in the past four months. They are listed in alphabetical order. 

Chinese investor Tianqiao Chen and his group of companies have a 14.96 percent stake in Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems after recently selling nearly 4.6 million shares of the company, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Montefiore St. Luke's Hospital in Newburgh, N.Y., is facing a potential financial crisis because lenders are calling in loans worth $40 million, President and CEO Joan Cusack-McGuirk told the Times Herald-Record. 

Advocate Aurora Health saw revenue and operating income increase year over year in the third quarter of this year, but the system ended the first nine months of 2020 with a loss, according to financial documents released Nov. 23. 

Through the third quarter of 2020, Pittsburgh-based UPMC saw its operating income more than triple, compared with the same period one year prior, according to recently released financial documents. 

Nearly one in five Americans live in rural areas and depend on their local hospital for care. Over the past 10 years, 134 of those hospitals have closed.

In an effort to reduce healthcare costs, Connecticut will abandon its fee-for-service program in favor of a bundled payments model for its state employees. 

Twenty-eight percent of hospitals in the U.S. reported losing money amid the COVID-19 resurgence, according to data from Strata Decision Technology, cited by Bloomberg Law.

Milwaukee-based Froedtert Health ended the first quarter of its fiscal year with higher revenue and operating income than in the same period a year earlier. 

The Walton family that controls Walmart is among the investors backing NowDiagnostics, a startup aiming to design at home COVID-19 tests, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

Below are 10 hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking CFOs.

Brooklyn Hospital Center President and CEO Gary Terrinoni believes more safety-net hospitals will be forced to close unless CMS starts reimbursing them more for care provided to Medicaid and Medicare patients, he told Spectrum News NY1 Nov. 19.

The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled that Yankton County is not responsible for paying the indigent care costs of 23 patients who were detained under mental health orders at Yankton-based Avera Sacred Heart Hospital.

In the U.S., fee-for-service medicine has long been cited as creating incentives for overuse of medical services, which ultimately leads to higher spending. But with structured fee negotiations and standardized prices, high-income countries like France, Germany and Japan have seen some success with fee-for-service models, according to a new analysis published in Health Affairs.

St. Louis-based Ascension saw its net income reach $1.2 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2021, which ended Sept. 30, according to recently released financial documents. 

CMS chose 916 primary care practices and 37 regional health plan partners as participants in its new payment model called Primary Care First.

Nobody in healthcare expected 2020 to turn out the way it has for providers or their patients thanks to COVID-19.