Medtronic has announced its first-quarter 2010 financial results and is reporting revenue of $3.9 billion, up 6 percent from $3.7 billion in first-quarter 2009, according to a Medtronic news release.

U.S. hospitals would see a net gain of $16 billion over the first 10 years of health reform, rather than the $155 billion loss announced in an agreement between the hospital industry and the White House in July, according to…

Healthcare providers are seeing revenues drop due to decreased demand for less urgent or elective care, more patients unable to pay their medical bills, significant losses in investment income, less charitable giving and cuts in state and federal health care…

An analysis of hospital finances by Thomson Reuters finds that the median profit margin of U.S. hospitals increased from 0.17 percent in the third quarter of 2008 to 3.1 percent in the first quarter of 2009, according to a release…

Financing and access to capital are critical to hospitals' operations, as financing helps hospitals fund projects and provide liquidity to maintain and improve patient care.

A new report by A.M. Best puts the survival of many small and midsize not-for-profit hospitals in question, due to lack of economies of scale, poor payor mix, higher overhead costs, fewer high-margin specialty service lines and an overall lower…

Cary Payne, administrator and CEO of Athens-Limestone Hospital in Athens, Ala., discussed why a public healthcare plan that would compete with private insurers would be detrimental to small hospitals in an article in The News Courier.

Alan Miller, CEO King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, discussed his opinions on a public-plan option and the lack of tort reform measures in the current healthcare reform bills in an article in MarketWatch.

Here is a list of the average length of stay, charges and costs per patient for U.S. hospitals by payor type, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 2007 national statistics.

Partners HealthCare has narrowed its losses for third-quarter 2009 but still reported an $18 million deficit for the first nine months of the year, according to a report in the Boston Globe.