Health Care Analysts See Bleak Outlook for Hospitals
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A chill is in the air for hospitals accustomed to having insurers pay ever higher prices for hospital services. That era appears to be ending.
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BERKELEY, Calif. A bad performance audit could lead one of the Bay Area&#39;s premier hospitals to lose its accreditation in three years, if the problems uncovered aren&#39;t fixed.
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Many hospitals do not believe that the promised guarantee of treatment can be implemented in Finnish public health facilities next year.
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The financial pressures associated with cancer can have dire consequences for patients, a survey finds.
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Retail clinics grow, and some physicians aren't happy.
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The prognosis for universal health care in California is grim this year, and experts say a failure could set back similar efforts nationwide for years to come.
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A look at Healthways before the third-quarter earnings report.
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A doctors group expects a serious shortfall of family physicians in at least five states by 2020.
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Medical-care ratio concerns trip up shareholders.
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BALTIMORE - Health care organizations not considering offshore outsourcing are missing out on significant cost savings, but administrators need to be aware of potential risks, including lax handling of data security by some vendors and the effect on employee morale, a health care IT analyst said Tuesday.
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Competition makes for a dreary outlook for the company.
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The multi-billion-dollar health care programthat helps fund everything from medical colleges to insurance for poor children may run a shortfall by the end of the state fiscal year.
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The federal government unveiled new cardiac care information last month on a Web site that tracks hospital performance, earning kudos from hospital administrators and health-care researchers but demonstrating how difficult it is for consumers to compare hospital care.
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Health Management Associates , which operates 59 hospitals in the United States, reported a 59 percent drop in its third-quarter profit on Friday after an increase in uninsured patients and mounting unpaid bills for its services.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- HCA, the nation&#39;s largest for-profit hospital operator, reported Friday that earnings fell 26 percent in the third quarter, in line with a lowered outlook released last week.
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Caritas Christi Health System Inc., the troubled hospital chain owned by the Archdiocese of Boston, is considering closing or selling 144-year-old Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester because its performance is predicted to fall about $7 million short of expectations this year, according to an internal document obtained by the Globe.
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Two East San Jose hospitals owned by HCA Inc. have lost a combined $117.5 million over the last five years, raising concerns that the for-profit hospital chain&#39;s $110 million renovation plans for the area could be in jeopardy.