Amid Signs Of Life, US Leveraged Loan, High Yield Bond Issuance Remains Measured
Leveraged finance issuance in the U.S. continued at its deliberate pace last week - though there are signs of life in the market - with $4.7 billion of leveraged loans and $3.7 billion of high yield...
View ArticleWhy is Washington Turning its Back on Waste in Medicare Spending?
A year ago I wrote here the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program was a good start in stemming the over $60 billion in erroneous payments the government makes each year through Medicare and Medicaid....
View ArticleAs Red States Balk, Medicaid Expansion Stops At 31 States
Republican-led states are balking at Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, which means 19 GOP dominated states will likely pass up 100 percent federal funding available to expand health...
View ArticleObamacare Fuels Surprising Jump In Hospital Admissions
The Affordable Care Act is increasing hospital admissions, which had been flat or falling for several years before the law expanded coverage to millions of Americans.
View ArticleImplied JKD Analyst Target Price: $134
Looking at the underlying holdings of the ETFs in our coverage universe at ETF Channel, we have compared the trading price of each holding against the average analyst 12-month forward target price, and...
View ArticleThese 10 Drugs Are Busting Hospital Budgets
The nation’s hospital industry says prescription costs are busting budgets with costs per inpatient admission jumping nearly 40% between 2013 and 2015.
View ArticleDoctor Participation Drops As Obamacare Enrollment Begins
The number of doctors participating in health plans on public exchanges dipped 4% to 57% of physicians in “health insurance plans offered in the federal or state exchanges under the ACA,” SERMO, a...
View ArticleDismantling Obamacare Won't Be Easy For Trump And The GOP
A repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act won’t be easy for Donald Trump and the Republican Congress as advocates for patients line up to protect 20 million Americans receiving healthcare
View ArticleHospitals To Trump: Any Obamacare Replacement Should Maintain Coverage
The politically powerful American Hospital Association urged President-Elect Donald Trump urging him to maintain coverage of those insured under the Affordable Care Act, reduce regulation and pay them...
View ArticleHealth Industry Lobbies To Keep Obamacare Customers
The health industry is launching a lobbying blitz to keep 20 million Americans who gained health coverage under the Affordable Care Act from losing their benefits under Donald Trump's and Paul Ryan's...
View ArticleAs Obamacare Repeal Looms, Hospitals Brace For Job Losses
The Affordable Care Act could cost more than 2.5 million jobs, the Commonwealth Fund says, and hospitals say most of them will be nurses and their other workers.
View ArticleUnitedHealth's Optum To Buy Surgery Center Business For $2.3 Billion
UnitedHealth Group, the largest U.S. health insurer, is escalating its already aggressive effort to become a nationwide provider of medical care, buying Surgical Care Affiliates for more than $2 billion.
View ArticleMore Bad Polls For Trump After Failed Health Reform Effort
In less than three months in the White House, Donald Trump has cast a shadow of uncertainty on the practice of medicine and pushed the public toward his predecessor's goals to expand health coverage,...
View ArticleAs Hospitals Fade, UnitedHealth's OptumCare Moves Into Their Communities
UnitedHealth Group’s OptumCare “community-focus” may be emerging as a model health insurers want to do business with as fee-for-service medicine gives way to value-based care that keeps patients out of...
View ArticleBlame For Obamacare's Next Rate Hike Shifts To Trump And GOP
If cost-sharing subsidies aren’t funded through 2018, Trump and Republicans will be responsible for more insurers leaving public exchanges and a rate hike of nearly 20 percent on average, reports...
View ArticleBlue Cross Plan Puts 23% Obamacare Rate Hike On GOP Congress
BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina submitted a 2018 rate increase of 23% for individuals policies under the Affordable Care Act, saying it could be much lower if Congress funds cost-sharing...
View ArticleFewer Doctors Have Ownership Stake In Their Practices
Share of “patient care” physicians with an ownership stake in their practices dipped to 47% in 2016 compared to 53.2% in 2012, the AMA’s analysis on practice arrangements shows
View ArticleIf Trump Kills Obamacare Subsidies, Hospitals Face Unpaid Medical Bills
Hospitals could see a wave of unpaid medical bills should Donald Trump decide against funding cost-sharing subsidies that low-income Americans use to pay out-of-pocket costs under the Affordable Care Act.
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