1. Healthcare billing fraud: 11 recent cases  Full story 

2. 25 hospitals where charity care falls behind tax breaks  Full story

3. Optum spending spree continues, adding to 70K+ physicians  Full story 

4. Lehigh Valley Health Network is changing the way it thinks about post-insurance patient collections. Learn how your organization can boost revenue and aid patients' financial journey by doing the same. 

5. 'Simply unsustainable': Hospital groups react to proposed inpatient payment rule  Full story 

6. BayCare adopts Oracle tool to automate RCM functions  Full story 

7. RCM company Aspirion taps CEO  Full story 

8. Today's patient journey is riddled with complexities that stall payments, but some orgs are outsmarting them. See the tech that led Methodist Health System to a 48% increase in patient payments

9. Texas health system CEO stepping down  Full story 

10. 61% of providers looking to outsource patient financing  Full story 

11. Why Epic doesn't sunset its software  Full story 

12. Are your claims actually getting paid? This is how one critical access hospital is working to stop denials and reduce time spent on fixing rejected claims. 

13. After recent layoffs, Penn Medicine LG Health to give workers 4% raises  Full story 

14. 13 cities hit hardest by inflation  Full story

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