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Detroit health system plans $60M turnaround

November 18, 2008 — 10:07am ET | By Anne Zieger
Stung by the troubled Michigan economy, one of metro Detroit's most successful health systems has announced a $60M turnaround plan. The plan, announced this week by Beaumont Hospitals, includes... Read more...

Bond buy-backs could stress hospitals' liquidity, Moody's says

October 29, 2008 — 3:56am ET | By Anne Zieger
As we've been reporting over the past several months, the bond market has been beyond ugly for many hospitals, some of which saw auction-rate bond rates shoot up disastrously during the recent crisis... Read more...

Healthcare borrowers still suffering

October 14, 2008 — 10:44am ET | By Anne Zieger
Even with a huge economic bailout package having passed, it seems investors still haven't gotten their confidence... Read more...

Healthcare finance firms aren't sweating Wall Street crisis

September 24, 2008 — 5:42am ET | By Anne Zieger
In theory, the tsunami of financial problems that's hit Wall Street in recent weeks is enough to scare anyone, even in a business like healthcare that enjoys steady demand. But if a recent analysis... Read more...

S&P downgrades for non-profit hospitals rise sharply

August 27, 2008 — 4:22am ET | By Anne Zieger
Standard & Poor's has taken a meat-axe to the credit ratings of not-for-profit hospitals of late. During the first six months of 2008, credit downgrades for non-profit hospitals and health... Read more...

NJ law caps hospital prices for uninsured

August 13, 2008 — 11:09am ET | By Anne Zieger
Following a trend emerging in recent years across the country, New Jersey has enacted a law capping hospital prices for low- and middle-income uninsured patients. The new law is one of four bills... Read more...

Credit crunch changed debt plans, but not investments

August 12, 2008 — 10:02am ET | By Anne Zieger
While the dramatic problems the financial industry has faced have had a big impact on healthcare borrowing--including both bank loans and bond issues--it doesn't seem to have changed the way health... Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: PwC says world health leaders want to change payment systems

July 1, 2008 — 9:16am ET | By Anne Zieger
A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers has concluded that it's not only the U.S. that is struggling with its healthcare finance system. The report, by PwC's Health Research Institute, found that... Read more...

Physician relationships examined

June 19, 2008 — 10:44am ET | By Anne Zieger
As with any healthcare conference, expect plenty of talk at HFMA ANI to focus on relationships with physicians. Unfortunately, as we all know, rules governing physician relationships change with the... Read more...

Tools for managing the self-pay patient

June 19, 2008 — 3:04am ET | By Anne Zieger
At this year's show, expect to see a lot of vendors pitching technologies and services designed to help you manage collections for the self-pay patient. It's telling, for example, that Read more...

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