Here are 17 recent issues that occurred between hospitals, health systems and payors within the past several months, starting with the most recent.

The American Hospital Association has commented on a bundled payment proposal for heart attack patients, saying CMS should carefully assess organizations that take part in the measure.

United Medical Center, based in Washington D.C., continues to struggle financially, as the district-owned hospital lost $13.8 million in fiscal year 2012, according to a Washington Business Journal report.

While implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is now in play, hospitals will continue to struggle with a basic challenge: how to secure reimbursement from millions of still uninsured and private pay patients that present to their…

As much as 80 percent of Mainers depend on Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems' tertiary services, which is one reason why the system depends on its CFO, Derrick Hollings.

The Workers Compensation Research Institute has found that states with workers' compensation fee schedules based on a percent of charges have higher hospital outpatient costs compared with states that have fixed-amount fee schedules.

High-risk insurance pools set up in many states for individuals with pre-existing and chronic conditions were originally intended to shift to the healthcare law's insurance exchanges gradually. But a tweak in a federal funding model is incentivizing states to unload…

California Gov. Jerry Brown called a special session of the state legislature in order to ensure laws passed during the session on health insurance exchanges and Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program, would be effective within three months rather than in…

As Congress works to reform policies surrounding immigration, hospitals and health systems stand to gain, or lose, a lot, according to a report from The Hill.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services released a report yesterday, affirming the "A" long-term credit rating on Highmark but cutting the Pittsburgh-based health insurer's outlook to negative from stable due to concern of future operating performance.