Here are 13 issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past week, starting with the most recent.

For-profit hospital operators were stuck in a post-election hangover last week, as six of the seven major publicly traded companies lost share value.

With President Barack Obama's decisive election victory last week, many healthcare organizations accepted that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is here to stay, even though House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is still pushing to repeal it. What is…

Hospitals weren't immune from the recession that hit in late 2008 and endured throughout 2011. A new infographic from Objective Health illustrates how much declines in admissions for commercially insured patients cost hospitals throughout the recession.

Here are several ways to improve clinical documentation improvement and limit the burden created by ICD-10 implementation, including getting physicians more involved, according to PhysBizTech.

The American Medical Association continues to resist the ICD-10 implementation, arguing healthcare providers should wait until 2017 when ICD-11 is ready, according to EHR Intelligence.

Point-of-service collections are becoming a larger part of hospital payment procedures, as roughly 86 percent of hospital and health system executives said bad debt now accounts for more than 2 percent of their total cost of services, according to a…

In August, MX.com surveyed approximately 1,000 health system executives and found that nearly two-thirds — 62 percent — were either uncertain or held a negative view about health insurance exchanges (often abbreviated as HIXs) and their impact on health systems.

The American Hospital Association has distributed a list of alternative strategies to reduce the federal deficit — policies "that don't simply cut Medicare and Medicaid payments," according to a Kaiser Health News report.  

Randy Combs, CFO of Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy, has been with the 31-hospital system for more than 25 years, making his mark as a forward-thinking financial planner in the Midwest.