Twelve hospitals in the U.S. have closed in the eight months since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

Eastern Niagara Hospital in Lockport, N.Y., will embark on a restructuring plan that will result in the loss of 80 jobs, according to Buffalo Business First.

Updated billing codes are now available for providers to report their use of COVID-19 vaccines once they become available.

Mark Runyon joined Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital as executive vice president and CFO in March, just as the COVID-19 pandemic first made waves in the U.S. 

Nationwide, health insurers have paid about $2.5 billion in premium rebates to members under the ACA's medical loss ratio requirement, according to data from CMS.

Just as diversity of asset classes, investment strategies, geographies, capitalizations and sectors can help strengthen investment portfolios, gender and race diversity can fortify investors against market volatility.

Between differing interpretations of guidelines across payers and different audit tools used by insurers, health systems often face difficulty in standardizing coding for office and outpatient evaluation and management visits. But coding changes coming for these visits, as outlined by…

Patients are questioning the testing and billing practices of a Connecticut physician who estimates he has tested about 60,000 patients for COVID-19, according to The New York Times. 

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has pledged a $1 million grant to the American Heart Association's national Bernard J. Tyson Impact Fund, which honors the legacy of Kaiser's late chair and CEO, the health system said.

The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted medical tourism, which has cost hospitals in the U.S. billions of dollars, according to CNBC.