After the Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act yesterday, the stock markets reacted wildly. Stocks were down in the market overall, but many hospital and healthcare companies reaped the benefits of the healthcare reform decision.

For-profit hospital operators were not the only hospital institutions to feel positive financial ramifications from Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, as municipal bond holders are poised to invest more in non-profit hospital debt, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.

Hudson Holdco, the new for-profit owner of Jersey City, N.J.-based Christ Hospital, has terminated the contracts with 19 commercial health insurers, according to a Jersey Journal report.

Tomorrow, June 30, is a day to re-circle on calendars at hospitals and other healthcare providers, as the Version 5010 enforcement discretion period will officially end.

Here are eight key considerations for bundling orthopedic payments from Mark Bogen, CFO and Senior Vice President of Finance at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, N.Y. South Nassau doesn't currently participate in an orthopedics bundled payment program but is…

The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services announced Lawrence Kissner as the new commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Medicaid Services.

Kansas is now one step closer to transitioning to Medicaid managed care, as state Medicaid officials awarded contracts to three Medicaid managed care companies, according to a Kansas Health Institute News Service report.

When David Ebel joined the financial executive staff of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic in the late 1980s, he had zero experience in healthcare but plenty of experience in the corporate finance world at accounting firm Arthur Andersen and then Dayton…

The American Hospital Association recently expressed support for the Senate's highway bill, which includes a provision that pension plan interest rates would be based on historical averages to protect employers from wild variations in interest rates.

Vanguard Health Systems, based in Nashville, Tenn., is seeking approval from the state of Michigan to acquire ProCare Health Plan, a Medicaid HMO, according to a Detroit News report.