For-profit hospital stocks traded well on the market for another week, as six of the seven made overall weekly gains.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America will offer $1 billion in senior notes to help fund a special cash dividend.

Healthcare reform and a somewhat stagnating recession are forcing hospital and health system CFOs to keep their budgets as tidy as possible. However, executives may be reluctant to dip into their labor costs, which represent roughly half of a hospital's…

Steven Smith, a certified public accountant, has served as CFO of Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita since its founding, helping it to become one of the leading physician-owned hospitals in the country.

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

Deficit-reduction measures related to the impending "fiscal cliff" will impact all companies within the healthcare industry, and providers — specifically for-profit hospitals and health systems — may suffer the most if Medicare is chopped as part of the talks, according…

Pittsburgh-based West Penn Allegheny Health System reported losses of $24.7 million in the most recent quarter, and now the financially beleaguered system may face a civil injunction from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report.

Dan Moncher, CFO of Firelands Regional Medical Center in Sandusky, Ohio, has been with the 400-bed teaching hospital since 1997, and he has been instrumental in helping Firelands achieve financial stability.

In 2011, roughly 58.5 percent of workers with health coverage were in private sector self-insured health plans — a significant jump from 40.9 percent in 1998, according to a study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (pdf).

As hospitals and other providers work toward the implementation of ICD-10, third-party billing services need to be part of the transition process, according to a recent CMS update.