Capital Finance
Over the past three years, the sprawling VA system has come under fire from Congress because veterans were waiting too long to see a doctor.
In addition to harming patients and crippling a healthcare provider, the attacks in the future will cause stock fluctuations that benefit criminals, said Scott Borg, chief economist at the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit.
The increase comes on the heels of a five-year period of historically low growth, from 2009 to 2013.
Opportunities include expanding the list of acceptable activities, greater transparency, new tax guidance on improvement activities.
Since those margins and fundraising capabilities are higher, children's hospitals also tend to have higher liquidity, Moody's found.
With Tom Price leading HHS and Seema Verma at the CMS helm, hospitals should brace for value-based pullback, problems accessing capital, Paul Keckley says.
Social spending has modest but detectable effects on population health, whether or not the spending primarily targets health.
A 2013 study showed that charity care constituted only 1.9 percent of nonprofit hospitals' operating expenses.
Model uses simulations to come up with strategies based on a host of desired outcomes.
The health system has been using telehealth to reduce emergency room wait times and power its telestroke peer-to-peer physician consult program.