As CFO of Baptist Hospital, Carrie Teaford heads the finances for the largest non-profit hospital in Nashville, Tenn., which generates $1.14 billion in patient revenue, according to the American Hospital Directory.

Here are nine issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past week, starting with the most recent.

When Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer surprised many by expanding her state's Medicaid program, she may have done so in part to ensure legal immigrants didn't get better health benefits than poor citizens, according to a document released by her office.

The state of Vermont has released its healthcare financing plan (pdf), which details how its single-payor system, Green Mountain Care, will be funded starting in 2017.

In an effort to combat lost productivity from a lack of sleep, Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care initiated a sleep and health coaching session with 2,600 of its employees last year, which resulted in significant productivity savings, according to a Wall…

HMC/CAH Consolidated, a critical access hospital operator based in Kansas City, Mo., has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy a little more than one year after it initially filed for reorganization, according to a Yadkin Ripple report.

Protecting Medicare and implementing online health insurance marketplaces were among Americans' top priorities in a recent poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Robert Woods Johnson Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health.

Health insurer Highmark's stake in West Penn Allegheny Health System, both based in Pittsburgh, has increased significantly over the past few weeks, and Moody's Investors Service is unsure if the insurer's credit mirrors the big challenges.

A new report from the American Hospital Association (pdf) shows that in 2011, U.S. hospitals and health systems supported more than $2.3 trillion in economic activity, a contribution the lobbying group said is "often overlooked."

Holland (Mich.) Hospital CFO Terry Steele can be proud of his hospital's financial performance. Moody's Investors Service assigned an "A2" rating on the 189-bed hospital's $37 million in bonds and affirmed the same rating on another $42.2 million in revenue…