Gov. Andy Beshear and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday announced $383 million in state and federal dollars for 54 rural hospitals by settling a 13-year-old dispute regarding Medicaid funding rates.
The notice from the Virginia tax department puzzled a Charlottesville couple in October. It said their state income tax refund had been reduced because of an outstanding medical debt to the University of Virginia Medical Center. Instead of $220, they received $110.
ANN ARBOR – Michigan Medicine will lay off 738 employees by the end of June due to operating losses encountered by the healthcare system over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. The number is just over half of the 1,400 eliminations the University of Michigan hospital system had anticipated in May when it announced a series of cost-saving measures to stop a projected loss of $230 million by the end of the fiscal year.
Cleveland Clinic is taking cost-reduction measures, including eliminating raises and delaying some capital projects, in reaction to more than $500 million in revenue shortfalls and increased expenses caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the health system said.
Many observers — from former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney — saw a simple reason for the closure last summer of Hahnemann University Hospital: greed.