Aggressively collecting medical debt should join the list of medical "never events," like leaving a sponge inside a patient or operating on the wrong limb, an Oct. 27 JAMA Forum article argues. 

Fayetteville, N.C.-based Cape Fear Valley Health is eliminating 200 positions, according to an Oct. 27 report from The Fayetteville Observer.

Indianapolis-based Eli committed $92.5 million dollars to West Lafayette, Ind.-based Purdue University to establish a new pharmaceutical manufacturing scholarship program.

Operating costs in healthcare centers and hospitals across the country are rising amid inflationary pressures, staffing shortages and supply chain disruption, and such locations are going to have to continue implementing measures to help mitigate the highly challenging situation, according…

Labor costs were one of the prime reasons Community Health Systems reported a net loss of $42 million for the third quarter, but the Franklin, Tenn.-based hospital group remains optimistic about lowering some of those costs going forward.

What happens when legal and healthcare bureaucracy collide? In one New York City case, the result is hospital bills of more than $600,000 and mounting.

Menlo Park, Calif.-based virtual care clinic Midi Health received a $14 million investment co-led by California-based venture capital firms Felicis and SemperVirens.

Houston Methodist has received $10 million from an anonymous donor for a medical expansion at its Shenandoah, Texas-based The Woodlands Hospital, Innovation Map reported Oct. 26. 

Hospitals in Kansas will receive $341 million each year following an update in the state's Health Care Access Improvement Program, WIBW reported Oct. 26. 

Thirty-five percent of Americans surveyed said they would be deterred from seeking care for themselves if they were unaware of pricing for necessary care or services, according to an Oct. 27 survey from Akasa, a revenue cycle firm that uses…