Despite lukewarm growth in admissions and revenue, St. Charles Health System, based in Bend, Ore., is maintaining profitability and holding its market share, thanks in part to its CFO Karen Shepard, CPA.

With reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payors shrinking, hospitals and health systems are exercising greater prudence on where they are spending their money.

Health insurers hoping to be included on states' online health insurance exchanges may have only a six-week window to tweak and submit their plans for state approval, according to a report by Kaiser Health News and NPR.

Health insurer Humana announced it has acquired Metropolitan Health Networks, based in Boca Raton, Fla., in an approximately $850 million transaction.

Here are nine hospitals that filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, starting with the most recent announcements.

Although most New Jersey hospitals fared OK from an operational standpoint, bad investments and pension obligations hammered away at their total margins in fiscal year 2011, according to a year-end financial report from the New Jersey Hospital Association.

Although the natural gas industry has found an economic boom in central Pennsylvania, some hospitals are shouldering the burden of its indirect costs, according to a Williamsport Sun Gazette report.

Morehead Memorial Hospital in Eden, N.C., has closed $40.6 million in FHA 242 loan refinancing.

HHS has approved an Illinois-based hospital coalition to operate the state's first consumer-based health insurance co-op with a $160 million dollar startup loan.

CMS' proposed rule on essential health benefits for insurance plans offered on health insurance exchanges may be too loose to adequately cover the newly insured, the American Hospital Association cautioned today.