10 most-read finance stories in November

CMS releasing its final 2017 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule and changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule captured the attention of Becker's Hospital Review finance readers in November.

The following are the 10 most popular finance stories from Becker's in the past month.

1. CMS releases final OPPS rule for 2017: 11 things to know
CMS released its final 2017 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule, which implements site-neutral payment provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.

2. Fitch: ACA repeal would be credit negative for hospitals
President-elect Donald Trump intends to dismantle the ACA, a move that would be credit negative for healthcare providers, according to a Fitch Ratings report.

3. 8 changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule in 2017
CMS issued its update to the 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The changes include a number of new policies that reflect a broader agencywide strategy to enhance quality, spend smarter and improve Americans' health.

4. How CHS, Tenet, UHS, LifePoint and HCA fared in Q3
Major for-profit hospital operators produced mixed financial results in the third quarter of 2016.

5. Texas hospital closes
After significantly scaling back services in recent months, Gulf Coast Medical Center in Wharton, Texas, closed in late November.

6. Ascension records $423M net gain on higher patient volume: 5 things to know
St. Louis-based Ascension reported $5.6 billion in revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017, up 3.4 percent from revenue of $5.2 billion in the same period of the year prior, according to unaudited financial documents.

7. Quorum Health adds 6 more hospitals to sale pipeline
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health Corp. is in negotiations to divest its underperforming facilities, said President and CEO Thomas D. Miller during a third-quarter earnings call.

8. CHI records $483M operating loss as labor costs grow, patient volume declines
Catholic Health Initiatives, a nonprofit 103-hospital system based in Englewood, Colo., recorded an operating loss of $483.3 million in fiscal year 2016, compared to an operating surplus of $23.9 million in the year prior.

9. 1,600 hospitals see payment bump under value-based purchasing: 8 things to know
The Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program, established under the ACA, is intended to encourage hospitals to provide high-quality care more efficiently by adjusting payments to hospitals based on the quality of care they provide. In fiscal year 2017, more than 1,600 hospitals will receive a positive payment adjustment under the program, while about 1,300 will receive a payment reduction.

10. Patients hit with surprise bills for 22% of in-network ER visits
Many patients receive surprise out-of-network bills for a visit to an in-network hospital's emergency room, according to research published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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