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NewsNot-for-profits could have a bleak year
Two key credit ratings services--Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings--believe the outlook for the not-for-profit healthcare sector will remain negative this year, says the Healthcare... Read more...
Moody's: Urban hospitals face downgrades if Medicare funding is cut
One of the big fears hospitals face under reform is that Medicare rates will drop to even lower levels, worsening an already-difficult situation. That prospect also worries analysts at Moody's... Read more...
Moody's rates HCA's planned $750M debt offering at Ba3
Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Ba3 rating to HCA's planned $750 million offering of first lien senior secured notes, putting the hospital chain's offering in speculative-grade territory... Read more...
Moody's: Non-profit hospital finances continue to deteriorate
Non-profit hospitals and health systems continue to face tough financial circumstances, with the one-two punch of a weak economy and tight credit continuing to sock their bottom lines. That's... Read more...
Tenet wants to buy back $1B in senior notes
Tenet Healthcare Corp. seems to think it has a chance of selling $1 billion worth of bonds, despite the still-reeling bond market. The company has made an offer to repurchase up to $1 billion in... Read more...
Moody's drops not-for-profits' ratings and outlooks
Moody's Investors Service has taken a steps that remind us that the healthcare financial crisis isn't exactly older. The agency dropped credit ratings for 19 non-for-profit hospitals and health... Read more...
Medical device companies facing credit problems
With hospitals and other healthcare providers postponing their investments in medical devices, medical devicemakers are feeling some significant pain as well, according to a new report from Moody's... Read more...
Moody's pans profit outlook for for-profit hospitals
Yesterday, we told you about a study concluding that more than 50 percent of U.S. hospitals were in the red. Now, Moody's Investors Service has chimed in with its own gloom and doom, offering a... Read more...
Moody's: Stimulus may not have big healthcare impact
In theory, the impact of $787 billion in federal stimulus spending should be dramatic--but that doesn't mean everyone benefits equally. And according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service,... Read more...
Moody's: Non-profit hospital credit downgrades at peak since 2001
Here's more evidence, if we needed any, that not-for-profit hospitals are facing tough times. Last year, according to Moody's Investors Service, not-for-profit credit downgrades exceeded upgrades by... Read more...
| Press ReleasesMoody's changes Tenet's outlook to positive; B3 CFR affirmed; Approximately $4.5 billion of rated debt affectedNew York, September 25, 2009 -- Moody's Investors Service changed the rating outlook of Tenet Healthcare Corp. (Tenet) to positive from stable. Concurrently, Moody's affirmed Tenet's B3 Corporate Read more >> |
