Novant Health has filed a lawsuit against a subsidiary of Zurich, alleging the insurance carrier should cover the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based health system's pandemic-related losses, according to Law360.

University of Virginia Health will wipe out a decades-old backlog of court judgments and liens resulting from lawsuits it brought against patients for unpaid hospital bills, the Charlottesville-based health system said April 19.

HHS is allocating $145 million in grant funding to health center look-alikes, which deliver primary care services to underserved communities but don't receive health center grants from the department, according to an April 19 HHS news release. 

A Maryland family practice physician agreed to pay the U.S. government $663,094 to settle allegations she submitted false claims to Medicare for fraudulent neurostimulator billings, the Department of Justice said April 19.

Healthcare stocks might not be reflecting the strength of the industry post-COVID-19, according to a market analysis in The Wall Street Journal.

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

Moves to reimburse hospitals the same amount as physician offices may threaten access to care, according to a new study from the American Hospital Association on site-neutral payments. 

HHS' Office of Inspector General is reminding providers and the public that the COVID-19 vaccine must be administered at no cost to recipients after additional reports of patient charges have surfaced.

Rennova Health saw revenue drop last year and is struggling to stay afloat, according to an April 15 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  

In recent years, flurries of digital tools hit the market promising to optimize the payment collections process for healthcare providers. However, they're not all created equal, and providers must consider which part of their revenue cycle they want to improve and why before adopting such tools.

Providers and insurers not meeting Massachusetts' 3.1 percent healthcare spending growth cap will likely face more aggressive oversight from a state health policy panel.

Citing a need to ensure future success, Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel, N.Y., will lay off 11 nurses, according to the Rockland/Westchester Journal News. 

Aspen (Colo.) Valley Hospital decided not to seek forgiveness of an $8.2 million Paycheck Protection Program loan because it does not meet forgiveness requirements, The Aspen Times reported April 15.

Erratic and unpredictable workload was the most common effect the pandemic had on revenue cycle operations, according to a recent survey of 587 hospital finance leaders. 

St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., plans to wind down COVID-19 inpatient services by the end of May, affecting 325 jobs, according to the Star Tribune. 

Ten hospitals and health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle management expertise.

Fourteen healthcare organizations wrote a letter to HHS urging it to extend the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization model through 2022 instead of letting it expire at the end of 2021.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers are urging HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to conduct "vigorous oversight" of the CMS rule on hospital price transparency that went into effect Jan. 1. 

Farmington, Conn.-based UConn Health asked for a three-year, $174 million bailout during an April 13 hearing in front of the state legislature's budget-writing appropriations committee, the Hartford Courant reported.

The House passed legislation April 13 that will delay $18 billion in Medicare payment cuts through the end of the year.