Capital Finance
As healthcare delivery and reimbursement models transition to ensuring quality care versus quantity of care, some sectors of the healthcare industry will benefit more than others.
Wellpoint said its solid financial results were due to taming medical cost increases in its employer-based business and benefiting from the Medicaid operations in its recent Amerigroup transaction.
As Medicaid enrollment continues to grow, the financial sustainability of the risk-based managed care model is being tested.
Hospitals and health systems never seem to have enough capital – especially with the new initiatives and mandates driven by healthcare reform and other industry changes. Yet some providers seem to be overlooking one of their most favorable, easiest-to-access capital sources: their real estate.
Second quarter financial results show strong growth and reveal litigation challenges.
For boards, the biggest compensation issue isn't so much how much is too much or how much is too little, it's how much is necessary to recruit and retain the talent that will address the unprecedented business challenges these organizations are facing now and in the near future.
CMS' Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model requires a degree of patience that many of the participating organizations couldn't afford, as evidenced by the recent announcement that nine are leaving the program.
Community Health Systems has reduced its second quarter earnings forecast and announced it has received another subpoena related to an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into the hospital operator's admissions practices.
Tenet Healthcare's acquisition of Vanguard Health Systems could be bad news for some not-for-profit hospitals, particularly smaller ones, because it increases competition.
Members of the skilled nursing community have been voicing concerns about the sector's ability to remain viable in the face of continued reimbursement cuts from the federal government. A new analysis bolsters their argument that SNFs are on shaky ground.