Finances: Page 134
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CVS announces affiliation with MedStar Health
What are the benefits to MedStar? And just how big is the CVS affiliate footprint?
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 27, 2014 -
What is the administrative cost of treating a single patient?
One Atlanta hospital has moved to activity-based costing to more accurately tie overhead costs to patient care.
By Tammy Worth • Aug. 27, 2014 -
Nonprofit hospitals barely in the black in 2013
Revenue growth was at its lowest point since the Great Recession. For-profits, on the other hand, did okay.
By Tammy Worth • Aug. 27, 2014 -
Another Pioneer ACO bites the dust
Is the program's "one-size-fits-all" approach to payment to blame?
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 26, 2014 -
How hospitals can save money by cutting the lights
Healthcare facilities in the country spend an estimated $9 billion a year on energy.
By Tammy Worth • Aug. 26, 2014 -
Revolt against medical device tax causes ACA revenue shortfall
The excise tax is a significant funding mechanism for the healthcare law.
By Sy Mukherjee • Aug. 21, 2014 -
Why Wal-Mart won't dominate the primary care business
Is the retail giant's potential to overhaul the primary care landscape just hype?
By Anne Zieger • Aug. 21, 2014 -
'Ice Bucket Challenge' defies skeptics, raises $22.9M for ALS research
If donations continue at their current pace, the challenge could help raise an entire year's ALS research budget in the next three weeks.
By Sy Mukherjee • Aug. 20, 2014 -
Availability of healthcare capital increasing
What do healthcare operators need to do to succeed in capturing financing?
By Anne Zieger • Aug. 20, 2014 -
Carondelet to pay $35M fraud settlement
The Arizona-based provider has admitted to no wrongdoing.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 19, 2014 -
Deep Dive
Healthcare spending may be flat, but medication spending is not
Pharmaceuticals are boosting otherwise-stagnant health spending.
By Tammy Worth • Aug. 19, 2014 -
Partners execs get big pay bumps
No other provider's executives in the greater Boston area earn more.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 18, 2014 -
Community Health Systems announces massive data hack
The theft included the personal data of 4.5 million patients.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 18, 2014 -
Deep Dive
How hospitals can benefit from value-based insurance
"We need to make sure health plans make it easy for patients to do the exact same things we want them to do," said Mark Fendrick, M.D., director of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design.
By Tammy Worth • Aug. 18, 2014 -
Deep Dive
The Friday Dive: Wal-Mart, VA referrals and False Claims lawsuits
Healthcare Dive's editor looks back on the biggest news from the last week.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 15, 2014 -
The slow, painful death of fee-for-service primary care
As payers move toward an accountable care model, more traditional practices are feeling the squeeze.
By Anne Zieger • Aug. 14, 2014 -
Pay raises for non-profit hospital CEOs shoot up
The latest publicly-available data shows a sharp increase in salaries, despite public criticism.
By Anne Zieger • Aug. 12, 2014 -
HHS reports new Medicaid enrollment tops 7M
Total Medicaid enrollment is now 66 million, although some states are still resisting expanding the program under the ACA.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 8, 2014 -
Partners HealthCare posts $34M operating loss
Sapped by a sicker-than-expected population and Sovaldi payouts, Partners has posted its largest quarterly operating deficit in years.
By Anne Zieger • Aug. 8, 2014 -
Deep Dive
The Friday Dive: The VA overhaul, Ebola and Cerner/Siemens
Healthcare Dive's editor looks back on the biggest news from the last week.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 8, 2014 -
Facility fees fluctuate, physician fees flat
Facility fees for performing procedures can vary between institutions in some cases by as much as 1,680%.
By Sy Mukherjee • Aug. 7, 2014 -
Deep Dive
Admitting a patient: What does it cost hospitals?
Price variation across the country has come under increased scrutiny. But how does the expense to hospitals of admitting a patient vary from state to state?
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 6, 2014 -
Medibid: Surgery by the lowest bidder
Medibid founder Ralph Weber bills his service as a "free market alternative" to Obamacare. But critics raise safety and quality concerns.
By Sy Mukherjee • Aug. 6, 2014 -
The window of opportunity for Medicaid expansion
Expect a lobbying push as healthcare groups realize the bottom-line advantages to having more people in the program.
By Anne Zieger • Aug. 6, 2014 -
Is Tenet pulling out of its financial mess?
The for-profit hospital chain said that all of its growth and profitability metrics for the second quarter were better than expected—driven in large part by the ACA.
By Anne Zieger • Aug. 6, 2014
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