Here are statistics on the average annual total revenue, expenses and excess/deficit revenue at nonprofit hospitals, organized by hospital total revenue, according to the IRS's Exempt Organizations Hospital Compliance Project Final Report.

Temple University Health System in Philadelphia announced that it will likely cut up to $50 million from its budget this year, according to a report in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The economics of providing healthcare services have always been challenging, at best. That is stark reality in an industry that is dependent on revenues from budget constrained federal and state governments, from tightfisted and powerful insurance companies and increasingly from…

Tenet Healthcare announced a loss of $33 million for its fourth-quarter of 2008; comparatively, the company lost $75 million for the same quarter of 2007, according to a Tenet news release.

Growth in national health expenditures in the United States is expected to be greater than the growth of the overall economy in 2008 and 2009 as a result of the recession, according to CMS.

Here are the health spending changes in rates from 2006-2007 listed by type of insurance, as reported by the 2007 National Health Expenditure Accounts.

Here are the top 20 most expensive conditions billed by hospitals to private insurance in 2006, with the total national hospital bill of each procedure (in millions), and, in parentheses, the number of hospital stays in thousands, according to the…

Here are the rates of personal health care spending growth by type of service from 2006 to 2007, as reported by the 2007 National Health Expenditure Accounts.

Here are the top 20 most expensive conditions billed by hospitals to the uninsured in 2006, with the total national hospital bill of each procedure (in millions), and, in parentheses, the number of hospital stays in thousands, according to the…

Here are the top 10 most commonly performed procedures with the most rapidly increasing hospital inpatient costs from 2000–2004, with total 2004 costs and, in parentheses, the percentage change in total costs from 2000-2004 (with 2000 costs adjusted to 2004…