S&P to monitor non-profit hospital tech spending

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:59:58 -0400

Over the next few years, credit rating firm Standard & Poor's plans to take a much closer look at the extent to which not-for-profit hospitals keep up with their peers in making technology Read more...

Health plans to boost premiums, squeeze providers

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:59:57 -0400

As readers know, several leading health plans have taken a profitability beating over the last several months, for reasons that include operational issues, medical costs and losses in the financial Read more...

Study: Uninsured ranks could be much lower

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:59:56 -0400

I know, you do everything you can to qualify patients for government programs when they're uninsured and need care. Despite that, uninsured patients continue to generate high bad debt levels for Read more...

MN governor vetoes medical debt history bill

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:59:55 -0400

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) has vetoed a bill that would have banned healthcare providers from collecting, using Read more...

Case study: ND system must cut $15M in costs

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:59:54 -0400

It's a sign of the times. Struggling with the boogeymen faced by most of its peers, including inadequate reimbursement and rising uncompensated care levels, Fargo, N.D.-based MeritCare Health System Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: Safety net EDs work to limit nonemergency care

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:59:52 -0400

As emergency departments with safety net hospitals continue to see more non-emergent patients, many are working harder to redirect patients to more appropriate channels of care, such as outpatient Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Investment losses put UPMC in the red; Shriners St. Louis fires financial official over "irregularities"; and much

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:59:50 -0400

> It was bad financial news for the usually-profitable University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which lost $7 million for the first nine months of fiscal 2008 after suffering steep losses on its Read more...

Following peers, Kaiser profits plunge

admin — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:59:58 -0400

As FierceHealthFinance readers probably know, the last few weeks have been ugly for health plans, many of which announced disappointing first-quarter results. True, it's worth bearing in mind that Read more...