CMS is threatening to end Wilson (N.C.) Medical Center's Medicare contract for the second time this year after the agency said the hospital is breaking a federal law that ensures access to emergency care.

Jackson, Miss.-based Merit Health Central has already discontinued a number of its services. It may be planning to end more still, according to local news station WAPT.

HHS says the Indian Health Service, the federal group responsible for Native American healthcare services, should pay an Arizona hospital $17.4 million the IHS is currently withholding because of "duplicative" services funding, according to a Nov. 7 Law360 report.

Several nonprofit groups representing Texas healthcare employers have formed a coalition — Texas Employers for Affordable Healthcare — in hopes they can help slow rising healthcare costs, The Dallas Morning News reported Nov. 8.

The majority owners of the Utah Jazz NBA team said they will donate $20 million towards childhood cancer research at Intermountain Healthcare's Primary Children's Hospital locations. The news came during the Nov. 7 Jazz game against the Los Angeles Lakers,…

The San Benito Health Care District board of directors, which oversees Hollister, Calif.-based Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital, on Nov. 4 granted a resolution to declare a fiscal emergency, according to BenitoLink.

Morris (Ill.) Hospital & Healthcare Centers is permanently closing its Yorkville campus, effective Dec. 3.

R1 RCM saw a net loss of $29.5 million in the third quarter of 2022, down from net income of $17 million over the same period last year, according to its financial report released Nov. 8. 

Cross-market hospital systems have been on the rise, potentially decreasing competition between systems, researchers in a Nov. 7 Health Affairs study found. 

Oak Street Health, which operates a network of over 160 primary care clinics for Medicare patients across 21 states, reported a net loss of $130.4 million for the third quarter ending Sept. 30. The net loss for the first nine…