Capital Finance

Thomas R. Green, CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based investment firm Lancaster Pollard recently discussed financing capital projects with Healthcare Finance News Editor René Letourneau.

Even as some governors vow to bow out of expanding their Medicaid programs in the wake of the Supreme Court upholding the Affordable Care Act, WellPoint Inc. announced July 9 it will acquire managed care company Amerigroup for $92 per share or roughly $4.9 billion.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Aug. 7 released an interim final rule for making healthcare claim payments electronically and describing adjustments to claim payments. The department expects this next step in the adoption of operating rules to save up to $9 billion over the next 10 years.

Memorial Medical Center in Port Lavaca, Texas, realized a $50,000 bump in revenue in just three months by optimizing the billing process.

Grand Junction, Colo., gets a lot of credit and attention as being home to pioneers in providing high-quality, low-cost healthcare. Healthcare leaders in the city of more than 58,000 are once again demonstrating their initiative.

The burgeoning mHealth field offers healthcare a wealth of opportunities to engage with patients and provide a satisfactory return on investment. But if mobile medical apps are going to stand any chance of survival -- with physicians as well as consumers -- they'll have to be able to integrate.

A new actuarial analysis of general and professional liability (GL/PL) claim costs for long-term care facilities offers good news and bad news. The good news first: frequency of claims is neither increasing nor decreasing. The bad news: the severity of claims is increasing steadily.

Based on venture capital funding levels, deal totals and merger and acquisition activity, global consulting firm Mercom Capital Group reports that the healthcare IT sector is experiencing its highest levels of economic bustle since 2010.

With the financial pressures that healthcare organizations are facing, many hospitals are using traditional cost cutting methods to save money by looking at layoffs and staff reductions. Many more hospitals, however, are finding ways to reduce costs through lean management methods that don't require layoffs and can improve quality for patients.

As widespread drought annihilates crops and sends prices increasingly higher, supply chain managers at healthcare facilities are no doubt eyeing their budgets.