CMS will pay 340B hospitals at average sales price plus 6 percent — rather than average sales price minus 22.5 percent — for all calendar year 2022 drug claims with modifier "JG," the American Hospital Association said Oct. 20. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare saw revenues of $14.97 billion in the third quarter of 2022, down from $15.28 billion over the same period last year, according to its financial report released Oct. 21. 

Piedmont Newnan (Ga.) Hospital celebrated a groundbreaking ceremony Oct. 20 for its first phase of a $65 million expansion which will eventually add 50 extra beds.

Hospitals in Maine will receive an additional $25 million from state coffers to help them continue to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report in The Portland Press Herald Oct. 20. Payments to individual hospitals…

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare reported a net income of $131 million in the third quarter of 2022, down from $448 million over the same period last year, according to its financial report released Oct. 20. 

Some financially struggling Washington hospitals plan to trim costs by cutting travel nurses, the Spokane Journal of Business reported Oct. 20. 

CNN convened six healthcare experts to name one aspect of the U.S. healthcare system ripe for improvement. Two of the answers focused on Medicaid and have been combined in this summary.

Chicago-based Sinai Medical Group has selected Conifer Health Solutions for a five-year revenue cycle management partnership. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture invested $53 million in grants toward the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, also known as WIC.

Here eight study findings, legislative and other actions regarding medical debt Becker's has reported on since Sept. 28: