Healthcare finance news for hospital and health system leaders

Moody’s Ratings upgraded Waukesha, Wis.-based ProHealth Care’s credit rating Oct. 19, citing very strong financial performance and liquidity well above peers. The agency identified disciplined management as a key driver of the upgrade and said it has helped the system…

Baton Rouge, La.-based FMOL Health has named David Worthy as vice president of revenue cycle for Franciscan Health Physicians, the health system’s employed provider group, according to a post on his LinkedIn page.   Mr. Worthy most recently served as a…

Ask a Revenue Cycle Leader is a new series featuring insights from health system and hospital revenue cycle executives nationwide. Becker’s poses questions on the most pressing issues in healthcare finance — from payer relations and automation to workforce and…

UnitedHealth Group’s count of subsidiaries and related entities has reached 2,807, according to the latest “Sunlight Report,” updated in October. The report comes from the Center for Health & Democracy and is funded by Arnold Ventures. The updated report identified…

Shares of three of the largest publicly traded hospital operators have outpaced the broader market since June 30, even as the systems split on their outlooks for the rest of 2026. The rally comes despite a hard year for payer…

The Minnesota Department of Human Services told Becker’s Oct. 15 that it may need to claw back funds from Medicaid providers if it faces a disallowance from CMS in the coming weeks. CMS has deferred $550 million in Medicaid funds…

Hospital finances got a reality check in August. After four months of relatively stable performance, year-to-date operating margins dipped to 2.5% including allocations, according to Kaufman Hall’s “National Hospital Flash Report,” which draws on data from more than 1,300 hospitals.…

A typical U.S. hospital stay lasts nearly five days and carries an estimated $16,353 in hospital expenses, according to an Oct. 5 report from LendingTree.  Americans would need to work 435 hours, or nearly 11 weeks, to earn the equivalent…

At St. Louis-based Ascension, Executive Vice President and CFO Saurabh Tripathi said data analytics isn’t an afterthought in finance — it’s part of it. “Strategy and finance have to be intertwined,” Mr. Tripathi said on an episode of the “Becker’s…

I sit through vendor demos constantly, and the word “agentic” gets attached to almost anything with a modern interface. If you cannot tell the difference in the room, you will buy a rules engine at an AI price. Then you…