President Barack Obama's re-election made for a big Wednesday last week for the country's largest for-profit hospital operators, but many of those companies coughed up those gains by the end of the week.

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

Swedish Medical Center in Seattle recently announced its Foundation had raised more than $100 million in its most ambitious capital campaign to date. The health system not only met but exceeded its goal — raising a total of $103 million…

Results from a poll conducted by KPMG shows healthcare payors are already participating or planning to participate in health insurance exchanges.

A tax break for for-profit hospitals, aimed at saving the state's Medicaid program, will cost Illinois $10 million a year in lost revenue, according to a Peoria Journal-Star report.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated the financial repercussions of maintaining Medicare's current payment rates to physicians, finding it would increase federal spending by $10 billion in fiscal year 2013.

For the past nine years, Jacob McWay has overseen the financial oversight of Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth as CFO, and the system has grown to an enterprise with annual operating revenues of roughly $1 billion.

President Barack Obama's re-election turned out to be great news for the country's major for-profit hospital operators, as most of their stocks posted large one-day gains following the results.

Operating income at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (pdf) in the first quarter ended Sept. 30 dropped 53.5 percent, from $155 million last year to $72 million this year, due to non-recurring meaningful use payments, physician recruitment costs and pressure…

Twenty states will operate their own insurance exchanges in 2014, while more than a third will turn to a federally run exchange, according to a report from The Hill.