1. UnitedHealthcare suspends some prior authorization rules for hospitals Full story

2. Ex-Broward Health exec facing bribery, money-laundering charges Full story

3. Texas, Pennsylvania hospitals lose lawsuit challenging Medicare payments Full story

4. Reclaim market relevance in a shifting landscape — A guide for the healthcare C-suite. Click here to read more.

5. CommonSpirit, Blue Shield of California expand payment platform to 20 hospitals Full story

6. 2 House Reps. test positive for COVID-19 after Capitol riot Full story

7. CMS extends deadline for filing cost reports by 2 months Full story

8. Don't Miss Learning Opportunities:

• How Intermountain Health and Henry Ford Health System are making the patient financial experience frictionless. Click here to attend the live discussion.
• Does your organization have a digital, frictionless billing and payment system? Download this whitepaper to learn how to innovate the patient financial experience.
• Outsourcing can be an innovative way to stay competitive in today’s hospital market. Click here to learn how one health system achieved this via a strategic revenue cycle partnership.

9. R1 RCM forecasts $4B in new patient revenue this year Full story

10. Why MaineHealth is opting out of hazard pay to employees Full story

11. 19 recent hospital, health system executive moves Full story

12. How the nation's largest outpatient provider transformed its supply chain amid the pandemic. Click here to attend the live virtual discussion. 

13. Trump administration will release plan to to speed up vaccinations Full story

14. 25 statistics on medical coder salaries Full story

15. Daily COVID-19 stats, state-by-state:

• Test positivity rates
• Hospitalizations
• Where the virus is spreading fastest, slowest
• Death rates

Becker's Learning Opportunities

1. Does your health system have a digital engagement strategy that coincides with its transformation goals? Download this whitepaper to learn how Bon Secours Mercy Health formulated its digital backbone.

2. What can CFOs learn from an analysis of more than 100M hospital transactions? Click here to read the 2020 Denials Index.

3. Still calling your patients? Click here to find out why texting them will bring about better results for your practice.