By Vince Galloro |
February 01, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Sometimes the way you say goodbye determines whether the door will open for you the next time you knock. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans |
January 04, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription In the coming year, hospitals and health systems exempt from some taxes will, for the first time, list the exact amount they spend on subsidies for needy patients and other health-related activities on federal records available to the public. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans |
December 07, 2009
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Print Magazine Subscription New accounting standards go into effect this month that will significantly change how not-for-profit hospitals and health systems report mergers and acquisitions on their financial statements. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans |
November 09, 2009
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Print Magazine Subscription Healthcare borrowers considered a range of options last week after the bankruptcy filing of CIT Group, a New York lender with more than $4 billion in healthcare assets. FULL STORY »
By Vince Galloro |
November 02, 2009
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Print Magazine Subscription The faint echoes of the stock market boom are indicated by studying hospital defined-benefit pension plan filings for 2007. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans |
October 26, 2009
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Basic Web Registration The nation's economic and financial market woes have depleted healthcare endowments and raised questions about how best to manage portfolio risk. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans |
October 19, 2009
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Basic Web Registration In roughly nine months, Community Medical Centers went from an outcast in credit markets to a sought-after investment with a surplus of eager investors. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans |
October 05, 2009
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Print Magazine Subscription For healthcare borrowers that finance construction and expensive technology with municipal bonds, upheaval from the credit crisis threatened lasting changes to the market. But another disruption—less volatile, but perhaps more fundamental—was simultaneously under way. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans |
September 07, 2009
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Print Magazine Subscription Frank Sacco, president and CEO of Memorial Healthcare System in South Florida, was certain the nation's dour economy would boost traffic at the safety net system's primary-care clinics. What he didn't anticipate was the speed at which demand would surge, nor the raft of new patients from affluent neighborhoods who lost their income and health insurance to the recession. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans |
August 17, 2009
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Basic Web Registration Hospitals have always known why patients visit. Increasingly they now know exactly which patients will be able to pay for those visits. Income and credit scores have long been factors when consumers go to buy a car, home or apply for a credit card. Now consumers' financial profiles—credit card balances, income and overdue bills—are taking hold in healthcare. FULL STORY »
