In fiscal year 2011, hospitals and other providers appealed 56,620 claims, or 6.3 percent, of the 903,372 that had overpayment determinations from Medicare Recovery Auditors (RACs), and of those appealed claims, 43.4 percent received a ruling in the provider's favor,…

Increased outpatient volumes across the for-profit hospital sector in the first quarter of 2012 have contributed to a growth in adjusted admissions, revenue and profitability, according to a report from Fitch Ratings.

During 2011, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems injected $38.2 million into capital projects for Detroit Medical Center as well as $36.4 million for routine capital investments, but both figures fell short of commitments Vanguard made when it agreed to purchase…

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper recently signed House Bill 1281 into law, which would establish a pilot program to create new payment methods in the state Medicaid program.

Out of the three possible outcomes regarding the Supreme Court's ruling of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, for-profit hospitals stand to lose financially on two, according to a report from Moody's Investors Service.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has announced that the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Program has approved a $21 million loan to Manning (Iowa) Regional Healthcare Center, a 17-bed critical access hospital. 

The Massachusetts House overwhelmingly passed its version of a bill aimed to reduce state healthcare costs, according to a WBUR report.

The Congressional Budget Office released a new report yesterday on the long-term outlook of the U.S. budget, and healthcare spending is expected to eat up increasingly larger portions of the budget and, consequently, contribute more to the national deficit.

In an effort to build off the state Medicaid overhaul, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state will request a waiver from CMS, which will allow the state to invest $10 billion to "transform the state's healthcare system."

Michael Allen serves as CFO of Winona (Minn.) Health, a non-profit health system with a 99-bed hospital and more than 1,100 employees, but his financial expertise has taken a new national role.