Richard Pizzi
A group of private equity firms active in the healthcare industry have formed a non-profit trade association to support the "reputation, knowledge and relationships" of the healthcare private equity community.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report this week showing that the COBRA health insurance subsidy provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has helped middle class families maintain health insurance coverage during the recession.
Accretive Health, a Chicago-based provider of revenue cycle management services for U.S. healthcare providers has launched an initial public offering of 10 million shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $12 per share – well below what company officials had originally intended.
The recently enacted healthcare reform legislation and the recession are among the factors that will slow growth in the nursing home market, according to a new report.
Overall healthcare prices increased 0.2 percent in April and were 3.1 percent higher than a year ago, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Universal Health Services, one of the nation's largest hospital companies, has reached an agreement to acquire behavioral health provider Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. in a deal worth approximately $3.1 billion.
CFOs in the healthcare industry are less optimistic about the state of the U.S economy and their own company's financial prospects than their counterparts in other industries, according to a new survey.
Employment in the U.S. healthcare sector increased by approximately 20,100 jobs in April, although the national unemployment rate increased slightly to 9.9 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reduced to 12 months the deadline by which hospitals may submit Medicare fee-for-service claims, in line with a mandate in the new healthcare reform law.
The statewide total margin realized by Pennsylvania's 167 general acute care hospitals decreased by 2.62 percentage points in Fiscal Year 2009, falling from 4.70 percent in FY08 to 2.08 percent in FY09.