After four years at the helm of health insurance giant Anthem, CEO and president Joseph Swedish will hand over the reins to Gail Boudreaux, the former CEO of UnitedHealthcare, on Nov. 20.

A new chair and three new members have been named to the board of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).

Former Banner Health CFO Dennis Dahlen has been named as the new financial chief for the Mayo Clinic, replacing the retiring Kedrick Adkins Jr.

Franklin, Tennessee-based Community Health Systems (CHS) has completed transactions to divest 30 hospitals this year, though the 127 hospitals it still operates aren’t performing well either, according to industry analysts.

The tax cuts and code changes proposed by Republicans in the U.S. House include eliminating the student loan interest deduction, which is widely used by recent medical school graduates and other healthcare workers.

Additional cuts to what CMS pays to hospital-owned off-campus facilities were finalized in the Physician Fee Schedule rule for 2018, though the reductions were lower than what the agency had originally proposed.

CMS has finalized the rule for the second year of Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act’s (MACRA) Quality Payment Program (QPP), raising the low-volume threshold for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) but not allowing clinicians the option to participate if they don’t meet the minimum requirements.

Management consultant Jorge Perez has purchased nearly 20 rural hospitals in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Florida and other states and managed to save them from closing. His secret, however, appears to involve billing insurance companies for laboratory work not performed at those hospitals.