1. CMS penalizes 2,273 hospitals for high readmissions: 6 things to know  Full story

2. The 17 hospitals facing maximum Medicare readmission penalties  Full story

3. Healthcare billing fraud: 10 recent cases  Full story

4. Rethinking digital engagement: What patients really want from hospitals  Full story  

5. Mississippi orders payer to cease all business operations  Full story

6. Oracle Cerner to close 2 Kansas City-area campuses  Full story

7. 10 providers seeking RCM talent  Full story

8. Change your compliance, accreditation and document management paradigm: go from reactive to proactive — Here's how. 

9. Providence data analytics spinoff Advata lays off 32 employees  Full story

10. Health systems zero in on exec teams  Full story

11. Hospital leaders looking to revenue cycle outsourcing to cut workforce costs  Full story

12. Give patients the comfort they deserve without additional medications. Learn how one hospital is using aromatherapy as an adjunct for pain treatment. 

13. VCU Health to unseat CEO  Full story

14. How HCA, Tenet, CHS and UHS fared in Q3  Full story

Becker's Learning Opportunities

1. Staffing a 30-bed ICU can cost a hospital $2.75M. Here's how you can reduce staffing costs while increasing quality. 

2. Care plans based on a sample size of one? At AdventHealth, it's possible. See how the system is personalizing care with genomics and get best practices for starting your own program here.

3. Too many ED patients are admitted unnecessarily. Learn how one N.C. health system avoided 106 admissions and saved $1.2M over 9 months.