Capital

Health insurer WellPoint, based in Indianapolis, announced that Angela Braly has resigned as president and CEO.

Fairview Health Services, based in Minneapolis, is seeking city approval to use $53 million in bonds for capital projects, according to a Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal report.

The Association for Healthcare Philanthropy has released its AHP Standards Manual, which provides structured standards for accurately measuring and reporting charitable giving to non-profit hospitals and other healthcare organizations.

The U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight on Thursday held a second in a series of hearings on tax-exempt organizations, according to an AHA News Now report.

The American Hospital Association is calling on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee to provide funding in fiscal year 2013 for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, patient-centered outcomes research and programs to improve access to healthcare, according to an…

In light of the Supreme Court’s decision barring HHS from cutting funding from states that choose to opt out of Medicaid expansion, the Congressional Budget Office has revised the budget baseline for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to…

For Bill Frist, MD, a surgeon and former Republican senator from Tennessee, the health insurance exchanges built within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are something with which both sides of the political aisle should agree.

Kentucky state lawmakers fed up with Gov. Steve Beshear's (D) recent signing of an executive order to create health insurance exchanges based on recommendations from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are blocking the state from renting office space…

Raleigh, N.C.-based Rex Healthcare's venture capital fund, Rex Health Ventures, has announced its first investment, a $500,000 equity placement in Aerial BioPharma.

Rodger Davis, managing partner of Northcreek Mezzanine Fund I, and Kurt Faulk, senior vice president at SNB Bank of Dallas, discuss five common questions associated with bank and mezzanine lending for ambulatory surgery centers. This information was originally collected during…