Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation America released preliminary financial results for its third quarter, and although its profit estimates did not meet Wall Street expectations, the results are still larger than the third quarter of 2011.

Third-quarter profit at health insurer UnitedHealth Group (pdf) rose 22.5 percent, from $1.27 billion in 2011 to $1.56 billion this year.

Hospital Billing Optimizer: Advanced Analytics Solution to Minimize Hospital Systems’ Revenue Leakage     Hospitals are already struggling with razor-thin profit margins and losing out on hundreds of millions of dollars because of incorrect billing. And as invoices become more…

In August, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services released its two major healthcare medians reports: one for non-profit health systems and one for non-profit standalone hospitals. S&P's healthcare credit analysts doled out several figures across 40 pages of research and came…

Hospital wholesale prices fell 1 percent in September, according to the latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Producer Price Index.

Since 1988, Terry Kiser has held down the role of CFO of Georgetown (S.C.) Hospital System, and the two-hospital system has made significant financial progress since he first started.

Twenty-six states have submitted proposals to CMS to reform how they take care of dual eligible patients, according to a report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (pdf).

Saint Catherine Medical Center Fountain Springs in Ashland, Pa., has put all of its assets — ranging from plow trucks to wheelchairs — up for auction after a federal judge ordered the bankrupt hospital to liquidate all assets six months…

Nine acute-care hospitals and health systems have received credit downgrades in the past 30 days — the second straight month of high downgrade counts, according to a report by HFA Partners.

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