Looming Medicaid cuts outlined in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are expected to significantly hamper nonprofit hospitals as they work to recover operating margins, Fitch Ratings said in its 2026 sector outlook. Fitch maintained a “neutral” outlook for nonprofit…

From ECU Health’s plans to reopen a closed North Carolina hospital as a rural emergency facility to a healthcare group aiming to reopen a shuttered Wisconsin hospital, here nine planned hospital reopenings that Becker’s has reported in 2025:  1. Banner…

Conifer Health struck a multi-year contract to manage end-to-end revenue cycle operations for Anniston-based Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center.  As part of the agreement, Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center’s revenue cycle team will transition to Conifer, according to a Dec.…

Rock Regional Hospital in Derby, Kan., has filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to maintain patient care and hospital operations. The filing will allow Rock Regional to pursue a financial restructuring while serving the community without interruption, according…

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare has withdrawn both a permit application to replace its OSF St. Elizabeth Ottawa (Ill.) hospital and an application to discontinue services at the facility.  OSF HealthCare cited “significant shifts” in regulatory requirements, regional healthcare needs and…

Ask a Revenue Cycle Leader is a new series featuring insights from health system and hospital revenue cycle executives nationwide. Becker’s poses questions on the most pressing issues in healthcare finance — from payer relations and automation to workforce and…

Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health and Surgery Partners — an ASC management group — have entered into a joint venture to co-own The Physicians Centre Hospital, a 16-bed, physician-owned surgical facility in Bryan, Texas.  The agreement gives Baylor Scott…

Forty-three hospitals across 18 states have converted to rural emergency facilities since the law that created the designation took effect in January 2023, according to data from CMS. Here are the hospitals that have converted to rural emergency status, by…

Oroville (Calif.) Hospital and its parent organization, OroHealth, each filed petitions for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Dec. 8 to facilitate a transaction aimed at securing the hospital’s long-term future. The court-supervised process will allow the hospital to continue operations while…

As 2026 fast approaches and hospital and health systems brace for financial unpredictability, Lawrence, Kan.-based LMH Health is zeroing in on one unknown occupying many leaders’ minds: the future of ACA subsidies.  “It’s hard to know exactly where that’s all…