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Three credit rating agencies define the hospital and health system sector — Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and Fitch Ratings — and their financial analysis is paramount for hospitals looking for fiscal stability on the road to…
In fiscal year 2012, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, based in Oakland, Calif., posted $2.6 billion in net income, a 30 percent boost from the $2 billion in net income from 2011.
Physician-group giant HealthCare Partners, which was acquired for $4.4 billion last year by Denver-based dialysis chain DaVita, is applying for a California license to operate as a managed-care plan amid allegations it not been in compliance due to some of…
Maine officials have requested that HHS exempt the state from a federal reinsurance plan for high-risk health coverage in favor of its existing program, according to a report from the Portland Press Herald.
U.S. District Judge David Campbell has ruled Arizona's Medicaid copay demonstration project had no evidence it had been reviewed by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius before a waiver was approved, and ordered her office to review the project and report its…
Healthcare providers can use relative value units to estimate whether payors are appropriately reimbursing procedures and to secure better future payments, according to American Medical News.
HHS rejected Mississippi's application to run its own health insurance exchange last week due to Gov. Phil Bryant's expressed unwillingness to facilitate its operation, according to a letter from CMS' top exchange official Gary Cohen.
CMS clarified that critical access hospitals will not need to apply for special exemption when providing outpatient therapy treatments to Medicare patients who have exceeded their annual payment cap for such services, according to the American Hospital Association.
New Mexico's Human Services Department has announced (pdf) four health insurers will be the primary managed care organizations for New Mexico's revamped Medicaid program.
For several for-profit hospital chains, 2013 continues to be one of the most profitable years on the stock markets in the past half decade.