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New report by Standard & Poor's claims a more diverse payer mix brought about by the Affordable Care Act and a surge in admissions as more Americans have health insurance lifted the sector.

California is asking the federal government for permission to use Medicaid money to help put the most medically fragile homeless people in housing.

As Blue Shield of California fights to save its state tax exemption, momentum is growing around a movement to apply the same scrutiny to nonprofit hospital systems, and maybe collect the same taxes, as for-profit systems.

Prudential Real Estate Investors has raised $629 million to be used to buy senior housing.

The 2014 revenue growth for nonprofit and public health systems is a steep jump from the sector's all-time low in 2013.

Healthcare payment structures are changing, but won't necessarily hurt healthcare system's finances.

Globally, the growth of the fluoroscopy market with medical imaging is projected to reach upward of $2 billion by 2018. Within this market, there is a growing push to move fully into the digital age with flat panel detector based systems.

Operating income across Pennsylvania's 35 for-profit and 135 nonprofit hospitals decreased about 5 percent in fiscal 2014 from $1.8 billion to $1.7 billion, according to new data released by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.

The further reimbursement cuts are expected push margins of an estimated 40 percent of all home health providers into loss territory.

The parent health system of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals lost $17.5 million in the three months that ended March 31, as the winter's 9 feet of snow kept some patients from coming into the hospitals and clinics.