Accounting & Financial Management
At issue is whether the company is doing anything different from its for-profit competitors to warrant its tax break.
Collect financial information upfront, fight insurance denials, and send a combined bill from hospital and physician among advice for hospital finance staff.
The agencies say they will establish a 180-day waiting period before medical debt is added to someone's credit report.
More than 90 percent of CFOs surveyed said they already have strategies in place to partner with other providers.
Bill reduces funding for critical access hospitals treating uninsured patients from $5 million to $1 million.
Under current conditions, operating loss for the five hospitals studied would be $190 million in 2019, according to Navigant Consulting.
While metrics like 30-day readmissions and mortality rates weigh heavily on the results, Truven also places more emphasis on financial status than other hospital rankings lists.
Improving economy helps more low-income patients pay their balances in states that did not expand under Obamacare.
Mary Ann Stewart faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for healthcare fraud and five years in prison for making false declarations before a grand jury.
The health system said in a statement that it was never able to turn a profit on the $30 million acquisition of South Hampton Hospital in 2012.