Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau released figures showing that the number of uninsured Americans dropped by roughly 1.4 million last year, and the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey breaks down those figures state by state.

For the federal government, the beginning of the 2013 fiscal year is less than two weeks away. While most hospitals and health systems do not run on the federal government's fiscal year, the end of September does represent a turning…

Although the nation's major for-profit hospital operators posted lower admissions in the second quarter of 2012, revenue grew at an average of 3.7 percent thanks to high liquidity and a boom in acquisitions, according to a report from Fitch Ratings.

BerylHealth, a technology-based patient experience company, has released new online interactive calculator tools, which can be used to drive investment decisions for hospitals.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services intends to deny reimbursement for the algorithmic analysis underlying multi-analyte tests, its stands has developers of molecular diagnostics and genetic tests worried, according to Genome Web.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced enrollment in Medicare Advantage, the privatized version of traditional fee-for-service Medicare, is expected to increase 11 percent in the next fiscal year.

Hospitals in need of capital financing have several outlets within the federal government, and a new resource from the American Hospital Association gives an overview of each federal financing program.

Wallowa County Health Care District in Enterprise, Ore., has secured $3.45 million in funding through the offering of 10-year limited tax revenue bonds for the construction of a replacement facility for its Wallowa Valley Care Center.

If President Barack Obama is re-elected this November, thus upholding his signature healthcare reform law, for-profit hospitals may see a major boost in their profitability, according to an Associated Press report.

Whether hospitals are ready for it or not, ICD-10 is coming. In August, HHS issued a final rule that officially changed the compliance date of ICD-10 from Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2014, giving hospitals and other providers roughly…