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Case study: Surgical department speeds up billing
With surgery being a major revenue generator for most hospitals, it's critical to get surgical billings out the door quickly. Otherwise, hospitals face a cash-flow bottleneck that nobody can afford.
Moody's rates HCA's planned $750M debt offering at Ba3
Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Ba3 rating to HCA's planned $750 million offering of first lien senior secured notes, putting the hospital chain's offering in speculative-grade territory
Moody's leery of uncompensated care backlash
Moody's Investor's Service is nervous about what the next few quarters will bring for investor-owned hospitals. In a recent report, it noted that such companies could take a serious hit to their
Sharpening your cost-cutting pencil
Lately, healthcare facilities have made some of the deepest cuts they've ever made--and then cut back again. Mass layoffs have become more common than at any point in recent memory, travel has been
HIT deal volumes fall for first quarter of '09
Sure, health IT deals are usually a hot category. But that didn't prevent them from slipping a bit during the first quarter of 2009, with the volume of deals dropping a full 31 percent during that
West Penn Allegheny Health loses $5.6M for quarter
In Pittsburgh, it's another sign of the times, with a major area health system--West Penn Allegheny--reporting an operating loss of $9.1 million and net loss of $5.6 million for the quarter ending
Bond buy-backs could stress hospitals' liquidity, Moody's says
As we've been reporting over the past several months, the bond market has been beyond ugly for many hospitals, some of which saw auction-rate bond rates shoot up disastrously during the recent crisis
IRS releases new Form 990 instructions; PwC struggles to help Grady rebuild cash flow;
> The IRS has officially released new instructions for Form 990, including tools that make it easier to answer questions, line by line.
