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

Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker have said they will not set up state-based insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, meaning the federal government will have to step in to run the exchanges…

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

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…