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National healthcare expenditures grew 3.9 percent in 2011, similar to growth rates in 2009 and 2010, meaning healthcare spending continues to grow at historically slow levels, according to the official analysis of national healthcare data from CMS' Office of the…
Hospitals took significant dings from Congress' budget deficit negotiations in the New Year's Day deal to avert the fiscal cliff. However, for a second time, the hospital lobby came through to protect its interests from much-expected cuts to outpatient payments,…
In 2011, the nation's 4,973 non-profit hospitals recorded $41.1 billion in uncompensated care — the most ever recorded since the American Hospital Association first tracked the data in 1980, according to the AHA's Annual Survey of Hospitals (pdf).
Although credit ratings on most non-profit hospitals and healthcare providers should remain stable this year, the financial environment will be "less favorable" compared with the past three years, according to a Standard & Poor's Ratings Services report.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield allowed its contract with Middlesex Hospital of Middletown, Conn., to expire last Monday after months of botched negotiating, but the two sides announced they have renewed a multiyear contract.
Although the healthcare law stipulates health insurance rate hikes of 10 percent or more must be reviewed by state regulators, many insurers' requests for double-digit premium increases are being granted for 2013, according to a report by The New York…
The new year has not slowed the hot ride for for-profit hospital companies. The seven major publicly traded hospital operators each posted gains last week, the first of 2013, and many are trading at some of their highest values in…
Here are seven issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past two weeks.
Deutsche Bank analysts have downgraded the two largest for-profit health insurers, UnitedHealth of Minnetonka, Minn., and WellPoint of Indianapolis from "buy" to "hold," according to reports from StreetInsider.