Ritzville, Wash.-based East Adams Rural Healthcare will move forward with a reset of its rural health clinic after nearly closing amid financial challenges at its Ritzville Hospital. EARH shared in February that financial difficulties would force the clinic to shut…
Finance & Funding
UnitedHealthcare is expanding rural healthcare initiatives to cover the entire U.S., according to an April 20 news release shared with Becker’s. These efforts include accelerating payments by up to 50% for roughly 1,500 hospitals and all critical access hospitals, reducing…
Rural hospital CEOs are hitting a breaking point. Inpatient volumes are shrinking, workforce costs are climbing, and the fee-for-service model that once anchored community hospitals offers diminishing returns. But rather than waiting for the margin pressure to resolve itself, a…
Texas is set to receive $281 million in the first year of Rural Health Transformation Program funding — the largest total award of any state — yet it will receive the lowest amount per rural resident, according to KFF. The…
As financial pressure mounts across rural healthcare, revenue cycle management companies are rapidly expanding offerings aimed specifically at small, independent and community hospitals. The shift has been accelerated by staffing shortages, payer complexity and a new wave of federal rural…
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As rural hospitals across the nation continue to face mounting financial challenges and closures, East Adams Rural Healthcare’s Ritzville (Wash.) Hospital is emerging as a success story through aggressive operational and financial changes, with hopes to become the state’s first…
As states finalize plans to administer billions of dollars through the federal Rural Health Transformation Program, rural hospital leaders are beginning to articulate what they hope the funds will enable, from shoring up fragile service lines to building long-term infrastructure…
Andy Zukowski, CFO of Greenville, N.C.-based ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, is tackling healthcare industry uncertainties head on with his finance team as a new year dawns. North Carolina is facing a budget…
Rural hospital leaders are raising concerns that some of the new federal rural health transformation funding could flow through state governments without ever reaching the hospitals the program was designed to support. CMS awarded $50 billion across all 50 states…
States are beginning to sketch out plans to deploy billions of dollars in new federal funding aimed at stabilizing and transforming rural healthcare, but early signals point to wide variation in approach and persistent uncertainty for rural hospitals waiting to…