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SPOTLIGHT: How will health reform affect Wall Street?
For some parties--notably providers who handled a boatload of uninsured patients today--current health reform proposals are almost certainly a win. But Wall Street is still nervously wondering who... Read more...
LifePoint Hospitals' Q2 disappoints Wall Street
Community hospital operator LifePoint Hospital has had a disappointing second quarter, with earnings falling 5 percent compared with the same period a year ago. Not surprisingly, the stock has taken... Read more...
HMA, Tenet still face financial struggles
Health Management Associates has had a rough second quarter, putting in it in the unenviable position of being perhaps the worst-positioned major hospital player, according to some analysts. Both HMA... Read more...
Time to perfect non-aggressive collections methods
Over the last several months, the hospital industry has come under particularly intense pressure to cut down on bad-debt ratios. Not only are high bad-debt levels a major drain on performance,... Read more...
S&P to monitor non-profit hospital tech spending
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...
Fear and trembling in health plan land
Well, this week caps it. It seems like we're looking at just about a clean sweep where bad-news health plan financials are concerned: UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Cigna, WellPoint, Kaiser and... Read more...
Tenet sees $31 million loss for Q1
Dogged by expenses from lawsuits, Tenet Healthcare announced a $31 million first-quarter loss. Tenet reported a net loss of $31 million for the first quarter of this year, compared with a profit of... Read more...
