Capital Finance
The nullification of the 2010 healthcare law currently under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court would be a credit negative for for-profit hospital operators, according to Moody's Investors Service.
Hospitals and systems are at more financial risk than ever for care costs and quality due to the Affordable Care Act.
Lancaster Pollard closed on a $25 million financing deal with Mahaska Health Partnership in Oskaloosa, Iowa, for a 52,000-square-foot expansion of the healthcare facility, the financial services firm announced Monday.
Many U.S. not-for-profit hospitals and health systems will likely face increased pension funding needs in the next several years despite an improvement in funded status in 2011, according to a Standard & Poor's Ratings Services report released Monday.
Despite the distractions of an election year and the Supreme Court review of the Affordable Care Act, healthcare companies and providers are looking beyond immediate issues as they seek to offset the recent decline in healthcare spending, says Moody's in its latest Healthcare Quarterly.
A federal district court judge on Wednesday dismissed, with prejudice, the lawsuit brought against Community Health Systems (CHS) by Tenet Healthcare last spring, as it sought to fend off CHS' hostile takeover bid.
Kaiser Permanente's first ever hospital design challenge, Small Hospital, Big Idea, came to a surprise ending this week: a tie.
In recognition of the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act becoming law, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD, spoke in central Maine on Monday about the benefits of the law and the importance of prevention to the future of health in the country.
The average per-capita cost of healthcare services in the United States continues to climb but at a slightly slower rate according to Standard & Poor's Healthcare Economic Composite Index.
In 2011, the medical device sector posted a total of 170 deals, according to Deal Search Online, the M&A database from Irving Levin Associates. And according to revealed prices, 2011 had a grand total of $63.5 billion in medical device merger and acquisition transactions. We delved a bit deeper into the five largest medical device M&A deals of 2011, as outlined by Irving Levin Associates.