Claudia Gourdon is senior vice president of New York-based Healthcare Finance Group, which specializes in senior debt financing.

HCA, the nation's largest hospital chain, is preparing to file an initial public offering as soon as next month that could raise $3 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg, and plans to interview banks in coming weeks that might…

Maryland's unusual hospital rate-setting system is dividing $123 million in expenses for the state's Medicaid program between hospitals and payors, according to the Baltimore Sun.

The amount that hospitals charged the uninsured for inpatient care grew by 88 percent between 1998 and 2007, according to a News and Numbers report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The cash deficit for San Joaquin General Hospital in French Camp, Calif., has risen from $47.9 million to $52.1 million, primarily due to payment delays from government funding sources and its unbudgeted operating losses, according to a report by the…

UnitedHealth Group, Healthspring, Coventry Health Care and Humana are among the insurers that will receive the same payment rates for 2011 as they did this year for administering Medicare Advantage plans, according to a report in Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

A study by the Rhode Island Hospital Association predicts the addition of more paying patients under health reform will not make up for hospitals' losses in Medicare reimbursements and disproportionate share hospital payments, according to a report by the Providence…

Sierra Kings District Hospital, a taxpayer-funded hospital in Reedley, Calif. that declared bankruptcy last year, withheld $1.4 million from an employee pension fund to cover expenses, according to a report in the Fresno Bee.

Many hospitals are looking for new opportunities for revenue or ways to increase their access to capital in the current economic environment. Others are looking to reduce costs and improve efficiencies across the board.Selling all or part of a hospital's…

Pittsburgh-based Highmark, a non-profit, private arm of Blue Cross-Blue Shield, reported a net income for 2009 of $187.7 million, doubling 2008's income of $94.1 million, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.