Prime Healthcare Services, based in Ontario, Calif., and operator of 15 for-profit, acute-care hospitals, recently received a $150 million revolving credit facility.

Within the financial sector, few topics are hotter right now than the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor.

A study suggests that safety-net hospitals performed more poorly than other types of hospitals on nearly every measure of patient experience, which could lead to financial consequences under the federal value-based purchasing program, according to a study published in Archives…

Joseph Lemaire was appointed CFO of Teaneck, N.J.-based Holy Name Medical Center in November 2009 with more than 30 years of healthcare financial experience under his belt — but it was his first post at a hospital.

Reduced reimbursement should "never be mistaken" for reducing healthcare costs, since the expense will only be shifted to someone else, according to Lynn Nicholas, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Hospital Association and author of yesterday's op-ed in the Boston…

Reading (Pa.) Hospital and the Wyomissing School District have reached an agreement over the hospital's community benefits and tax-exempt status, ending a dispute that has persisted since last year, according to a Reading Eagle report.

A new report from USA TODAY has found a majority of taxes and fees associated with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will mostly impact upper-class Americans.

Last week, CMS awarded more than $85.4 million to a new Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan in Utah, making it the 17th CO-OP to receive a loan from the federal government.

On Friday, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals announced it will cut $859.2 million from the state Medicaid program for fiscal year 2013, which equates to roughly an 11 percent cut of the state's $7.7 billion Medicaid program.

Internal controls within a hospital aim to minimize errors during any single transactions, but with so many other outside forces affecting healthcare revenue, hospitals may be putting off projects that could help faulty internal controls, according to a July post…