The nation's largest investor-owned health insurers — Aetna, Cigna, Humana, WellPoint and UnitedHealth Group — earned a combined $12.69 billion in fiscal year 2012, up about 1.28 percent from 2011.

The third year of healthcare reform is only a couple months old, but there are five revenue cycle issues that will impact hospital executives throughout the remainder of 2013, according to a report from consulting firm Pyramid Healthcare Solutions.

In fiscal year 2012, profit at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (pdf) in New York City soared 93 percent, from $168.7 million in 2011 to $325.9 million this past year.

For non-profit hospitals and health systems, 2012 was a mostly rough year for issuing debt, as Moody's Investors Service said a record $20 billion of debt in that sector was downgraded.

As non-profit hospitals and health systems struggle with lower reimbursements and operating challenges through healthcare reform, it may be beneficial for them to convert to an "endowment model" that is commonplace at universities and other institutions of higher education, according…

University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson failed a Medicare inspection after the University of Maryland Medical System acquired it late last year, and the hospital is likely losing millions in Medicare payments as a result, according to…

Trustees and board members rely upon internal audit and compliance work plans in mitigating risk. Hospital executives should ensure that healthcare reform provisions, such as value-based purchasing, are considered in the development of annual internal audit and compliance work plans.…

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act set up loads of new funds and programs to insure more Americans affordably. One of those was a $6 billion allotment for non-profit health insurance companies called Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans, or…

For the state of Wyoming, healthcare may seem rather simple.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory issued a statement claiming a review of its readiness to implement parts of the health law indicated the state was not prepared to take on the financial risk of an expanded Medicaid program, nor is…