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NewsSPOTLIGHT: Demand healthy for 'bank qualified bonds'
Hospitals continue to find it difficult to get financing for capital projects, but some options made available by the stimulus law are beginning to have an impact. One such provision, Section 265... Read more...
CA proposal would scrap fee-for-service payment for MDs
So, what if the entire state of California eliminated fee-for-service payments to physicians and replaced them with carefully-regulated capitated contracts? That's something the California HealthCare... Read more...
Hospital CEOs: Reform savings goals doable with lean, Six Sigma, Toyota methods
Looked at from one perspective, the $155 billion cost-savings goals President Obama has set for already-struggling hospitals are pretty darned intimidating. By one estimate, every U.S. hospital will... Read more...
U.S. Bank offers HSA with WebMD
U.S. Bank has teamed up with popular consumer health content site WebMD to offer a health savings account linked to a series of online health tools. The HSAs, offered by U.S. Bank Healthcare Payment... Read more...
Report: Small, mid-sized non-profit hospitals struggling
Small and mid-sized hospitals, watch out: A.M. Best wants you to know that many of you aren't paying close enough attention to your bottom line. As it is, smaller hospitals have historically been... Read more...
Healthcare equipment financing up in 2008
Last year might still not have been a good one for the financial industry, but that doesn't seem to have slowed down the equipment leasing business. According to a new study by the Equipment Leasing... Read more...
Survey: Use of health savings accounts growing
A new survey suggests that health savings accounts are becoming increasingly popular, with the number of accounts and level of assets rising steadily. A new study from Celent reported that the number... Read more...
Hospital lobby asked to look for healthcare savings
Can hospitals really deliver healthcare savings? The Senate Finance Committee is asking them to deliver, specifically by finding ways to shave costs off of Medicare and Medicaid over the next decade.... Read more...
Will this year's HFMA conference bring hope?
Believe it or not, the economy may be staggering to its feet at long last. In fact, according to a new Associated Press article, more than 90 percent of economists predict that the recession will end... Read more...
FTC clears way for clinical integration at physician-hospital group; Should Citigroup be allowed to fail?;
> The FTC has ruled it won't challenge a planned integration program by TriState Health Partners, a physician-hospital organization in Maryland. Article > Here's a question that's scary even... Read more...
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