Alan Lovelace's career has taken him across the South, from his native Arkansas to Tennessee to his current position as CFO of Stillwater (Okla.) Medical Center.

Eight states and the District of Columbia have been conditionally approved to run their own state health insurance exchange to open for customers by 2014, according to a blog post by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Hospital executives fear further Medicare cuts recently proposed by President Barack Obama in budget negotiations will negatively impact their bottom lines and the Medicare beneficiaries they serve, according to a New York Times report.

Out of seven major payors, providers ranked UnitedHealthcare last when it came to overall satisfaction but second for willingness to engage in innovative payment models, according to a Medical Group Management Association survey.

Acute-care hospitals in Massachusetts are seeing improved financial performance from fiscal year 2011 through the first two quarters of fiscal year 2012, as the median total margin increased from 2.1 percent last year to 3 percent this year, according to…

Credit rating firm Moody's Investors Service has upgraded the long-term bond rating of Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, Del., following the hospital's major class action settlement with victims of a former pedophile pediatrician who had admitting privileges at the hospital.

Fourteen acute-care hospitals and health systems issued tax-exempt, fixed-rate bonds from Nov. 16 to Dec. 15, according to a report by HFA Partners.

Eight acute-care hospitals and health systems received credit downgrades in the past 30 days compared with only two credit upgrades, according to a report by HFA Partners.

Nearly all the states that will have federally run health insurance exchanges will have Republican governors, citing unclear regulations or fear of economic woes from the exchanges.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) continued to champion his state's existing health insurance exchange in a statement after HHS suggested a state and federal partnership to expand the exchange's website to comply with the 2010 healthcare law.