Patients are expecting more flexible payment options, both in terms of how and when they pay their balances. Yet hospitals—and to a slightly lesser extent group practices—don’t appear to be providing all the tools patients have requested, according to a survey released by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and Navicure.

STAT News was provided what it called “unusual access” to internal discussions at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital as it sought to cut $50 million from its $2.6 billion in annual spending. The dramatic overhaul went so far as to override the choice of hospitals’ nurses on mattress pads.

Standards on coding and clinical documentation are improved constantly, but most residency programs lack education and training. In a study published in the Journal of Surgical Education, researchers evaluated residents’ current knowledge and examined the effect of an educational session on knowledge improvement.

The Graham-Cassidy legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would cause an immediate downturn in healthcare employment, amounting to more than 267,000 fewer jobs in the industry by 2026, according to a report from George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Commonwealth Fund.

Following up on an earlier lawsuit against Tacoma, Washington’s St. Joseph Medical Center, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a similar suit against the 110-bed Capital Medical Center in Olympia, claiming it aggressively demanded payment from patients without screening or informing them about charity care.

Triage sorts patients into five levels—with one being the most critical—but often patients are clustered in level 3 or sorted incorrectly. Researchers have developed an electronic triage tool to improve patient care, helping improve physician decision-making with machine learning, according to the study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Cancer patients are more concerned with communication and relationships with physicians over technical aspects of their care, according to a study published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

U.S. health insurers maintained a stable outlook in the latest report from Moody’s Investor Service, with the rating agency expecting insurance companies “will continue generating solid results owing to disciplined medical management and moderate medical cost trends.”