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

Hospitals and other providers will see Medicare payment reductions totaling $11.1 billion this upcoming year, due to the Budget Control Act of 2011, unless Congress passes new measures to prevent the cuts, according to a report from the White House's…

This summer, interest rates within the tax-exempt market hit historical lows, making it a lot easier for organizations like hospitals to issue debt without crippling their ability to repay. Yet, not many hospitals and health systems are taking advantage of…

Here are 12 issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past week, starting with the most recent.

Since 1988, Dennis Chalke has worked for Baystate Health in Springfield, Mass., and as CFO and treasurer, he has helped the organization maintain its solvency on its way to becoming one of the top health systems in western Massachusetts.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has rejected Maine's lawsuit, which centered around an expedited approval from CMS on Maine's proposed Medicaid cuts, according to a Bangor Daily News report.

Hospitals and health systems are increasingly moving toward the implementation of environmentally friendly practices. While this has obvious benefits to both the environment and patient quality, hospitals could save millions of dollars on their bottom lines, according to Practice Greenhealth's…

There are eight national for-profit hospital chains based in or near Nashville, Tenn., and they stand to lose roughly $22.7 billion in 2014 alone if states decide to pass on the Medicaid expansion, according to a Nashville Business Journal report.

National health expenditures in July rose 4.2 percent compared with July 2011, and it was a slight increase from the 3.9 percent growth rate this past June, according to a report from the Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending…

Ben Dunford took the CFO position of Texas Regional Medical Center at Sunnyvale (Texas) in August 2011 — his first hospital CFO job — but his prior corporate experience has helped him ease into the role.