Capital Finance
Economic, legislative and regulatory headwinds continue to buffet healthcare providers and administrators working to improve flat or light a fire under slow financial growth. Help isn’t only on the way, it has arrived with the development of electronic data interchange (EDI) technology.
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the Home Care & Hospice Financial Managers Association (HHFMA) have released the home care and hospice industry's first uniform chart of accounts in an effort to create financial reporting uniformity for the industry.
Stark laws have been dominant in medical real estate for nearly 20 years, and continue to influence the relationship between medical facilities and medical practitioners.
As hospitals and health systems launch construction projects and refinance debt in order to remain competitive in the marketplace, they should be considering all their capital financing options, said Thomas R. Green, CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based investment firm Lancaster Pollard.
Six states -- Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee and Washington -- will receive $181 million in grants from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department to help them establish health insurance exchanges.
There are market forces keeping the healthcare mergers and acquisitions market active but not frenetic, according to analysts at a panel called "Financing The Deal" at the Nashville Health Care Council on May 15.
Moody's expects an increasing number of healthcare companies to initiate dividend payments to shareholders as investors place higher value on immediate, stable income amid today's low interest rate environment, according to the new special comment "Peer Pressure Will Drive More Healthcare Companies to Pay Dividends."
Long-term care pharmacy provider, Omnicare, has reached a settlement with the Justice Department that is the largest controlled substance settlement in history, said the Drug Enforcement Administration.
As the healthcare industry continues to move in the direction of using compensation incentives, a new analysis reveals that incentives as currently used are not an effective motivator for healthcare professionals and waste an estimated $20 billion in resources.
With a changing medical model that is moving from treating the sick to helping people stay fit, wellness centers have become a component of the real estate strategies for some health systems, hospital executives told an audience of healthcare real estate professionals at BOMA International's Medical Office Building conference in Atlanta May 3.