Tom Siemers, CEO of Wilbarger General Hospital in Vernon, Texas, started an orthopedic surgery program over the last year, and the new service quickly improved the hospital's bottom line.

Moody's Investor Service revised the outlook for Advocate Aurora Health's outstanding debt outlook from "positive" to "stable."

Los Angeles-based Adventist Health White Memorial received a $1 million donation from former boxing world champion Oscar De La Hoya.

With hospitals and health systems facing what it calls "crushing financial challenges," industry group the American Hospital Association is urging Congress to pass immediate legislation and take steps to ease such burdens.

Nonprofit hospitals are bracing for a challenging few months as healthcare and social assistance job vacancies remain high against a backdrop of low unemployment, Fitch Ratings said in an Oct. 25 update.

Becker's has reported on 15 healthcare organizations that have decided to outsource finance jobs or other revenue cycle functions since Jan. 1:

Almost half of Americans say that healthcare bills have put them in debt, and more than a third of them are struggling to pay for healthcare costs, according to new research conducted by One Poll on behalf of digital-first healthcare…

Revenue cycle challenges "seem to have intensified over the past year," according to Kaufman Hall's "2022 State of Healthcare Performance Improvement" report, released Oct. 18. 

Wenatchee, Wash.-based Confluence Health reported a quarterly operating loss of almost $13.3 million for the three months ending Sept. 30, 2022, according to data provided by Electronic Municipal Market Access. The company posted positive operating income of $11.4 million in…

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