Hospitals may see uncompensated care costs rise by $53.3 billion by 2019 due to the Supreme Court's ruling on the Medicaid expansion within the healthcare reform law, according to a study from the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health…

The transition to ICD-10 doesn't have to be expensive, according to Phys Biz Tech.

Hays (Kan.) Medical Center covers a very broad service area, and CFO Bill Overbey has made certain the hospital's profitability and liquidity stay among the top in the state.

In 2011, New Jersey's 72 acute-care hospitals generated roughly $19.5 billion in economic activity, according to a report from the New Jersey Hospital Association (pdf).

Health insurer Aetna recorded a positive third quarter compared with its more recent second quarter, as profit crept up 2 percent year-over-year.

Early results of state government rate reviews on health insurer premium increases suggest insurers are no longer receiving rubberstamped rate hikes, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (pdf).

Centegra Health System, based in McHenry, Ill., with three main acute-care hospitals, is in a highly competitive area of Chicago's northwest suburbs, and CFO Robert Rosenberger is making sure the health system maintains a leading market share.

President Barack Obama's re-election odds have been on a roller coaster ride since September, and not surprisingly, the same could be said for the shares of for-profit hospital operators, according to a Bloomberg report.

Upgraded debt and overall credit upgrades for non-profit hospitals and health systems surpassed downgraded debt and overall downgrades significantly in the third quarter thanks to an active merger and acquisition market, according to a report from Moody's Investors Service.

Under the Republican's budget plan in the U.S. House of Representatives, federal Medicaid spending would be cut by $1.7 trillion between 2013 and 2022, according to a report by the nonpartisan Urban Institute for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and…