Cleveland-based University Hospitals announced Oct. 12 that it is cutting 443 administrative jobs, the latest in a series of cuts from hospitals across Ohio that have eliminated more than 2,000 positions in recent months.

CMS is extending Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced by two years, and it will now run through Dec. 31, 2025. 

Revenue cycle staffing is a crisis for healthcare organizations. In a June 2022 survey, 41 percent of revenue cycle leaders indicated that between 51 and 75 percent of their revenue cycle management and billing department roles are currently vacant. One…

Nurse recruitment and retention is top of mind for every hospital and health system executive in 2022, particularly those responsible for ensuring health systems' financial stability. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems are seeking CFOs for several hospitals.

In the last two weeks, a seven-hospital health system with facilities in California, Texas and Illinois, and a 90-bed acute care hospital in Pennsylvania have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy:

Social Security payments will increase 8.7 percent for 2023, the Social Security Administration said Oct. 13. 

Patients are getting surprise charges from obstetric emergency rooms, often unaware that they were receiving emergency care, Kaiser Health News reported Oct. 13. 

From Texas' "gold card" rules taking effect to a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts pilot program trimming approval wait times by more than a weekend, here are five stories about prior authorization that Becker's has reported since Sept. 14.  

The way healthcare organizations communicate and collect out-of-pocket balances is due for a reinvention — from the perspective of improving both the patient experience and revenue cycle management (RCM).