Capital Finance

Benchmarks for expected returns are also needed, it said, as well as a deeper understanding of how investment mechanisms, such as bonds and social finance, can help improve healthcare.

Overall spending grew across the major categories of total healthcare expenditures, including public coverage, commercial coverage and the net cost of private health insurance.

Clinician hiring tied to population health programs also threatens to drive up expenses, the credit rating agency says.

Association and hospitals say the user fee is discriminatory, flawed and possibly unconstitutional.

Standard form EHR contracts can be a bit tricky to negotiate, according to Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

Pending law allows taxpayers to apply for a state income tax credit for donations to these struggling facilities.

Company says discussions are in a preliminary stage, there is no timeline established for the exploration. Meanwhile, CHS spin-off Quorum Health Corp, faces a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of shareholders.

Transaction is expected to cut more than $10 million in annual interest, lead to gains of $125 million in present value savings, system says.

For the year, HTA has now invested more than $600 million in medical office buildings totaling 2 million square feet, almost 60 percent of which are located on hospital campuses.

To be successful in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, a provider has to participate in value-based care across the health system. That's according to the CMO of one that earned the third largest total savings in its third year in the program.