Featured Content
Valley Medical Center in Renton, Wash., has proposed a health services levy increase that will appear on the November ballot.…
Becker’s offerings
More in Financial Management
Valley Medical Center in Renton, Wash., has proposed a health services levy increase that will appear on the November ballot. In September, the community safety-net hospital said that its board of commissioners adopted a health services levy that will appear…
Hudson, N.Y.-based Columbia Memorial Health has submitted an application with federal regulators to convert to a critical access hospital. If approved by CMS, the hospital — part of Albany (N.Y.) Med Health System — would reduce its number of licensed…
R1 RCM has launched the Phare Operating System, which it said is healthcare’s first revenue operating system powered by enterprise-grade artificial intelligence. The Phare OS is built to deploy agentic and labor tools across the revenue cycle to improve throughput,…
New York City has canceled nearly $135 million in medical debt for more than 75,000 residents, part of a broader initiative to eliminate $2 billion in debt for 500,000 patients. The relief effort is part of a three-year, $18 million…
Nearly 60% of Americans are extremely concerned or very concerned about rising healthcare costs, according to a recent survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The results are based on a survey, released Oct. 21, of 1,289…
Charlene MacDonald, executive vice president of the Federation of American Hospitals, pushed back against implications made during an Oct. 23 Senate hearing on the federal 340B drug pricing program. Ms. MacDonald released a statement Oct. 24 following the Senate Health,…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare reported a net income of $1.6 billion (8.6% margin) in the third quarter, a significant improvement on the $1.3 billion net income (7.3% margin) posted in the third quarter of 2024. HCA said the strong financial…
The American Hospital Association is urging CMS to delay its Medicare prior authorization pilot — the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction initiative — by at least six months. “This timeframe is impractical for providers and jeopardizes the administration’s goal of…
Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems reported an operating income of $243 million (7.9% margin) in the third quarter, a significant improvement on the $205 million operating loss (-6.6% margin) in the same quarter last year. After accounting for taxes, interest…
More hospitals have closed in Pennsylvania than in any other state this year, reflecting a growing crisis in the state’s healthcare infrastructure. Of the 22 hospital closures Becker’s has reported on in 2025, four were in Pennsylvania. One additional hospital…