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Financially stable | Not-for-profit hospitals stay afloat by containing costs
By Ashok Selvam | January 05, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Profit margins at the nation's not-for-profit hospitals held steady in 2011 even as top-line revenue slowed sharply, according to data in the annual statistical guide released last week by the American Hospital Association.
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Fiscal deal gives Medicare more time to recover overpayments
By Joe Carlson | January 03, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A little-noticed provision in the fiscal-cliff package will give Medicare officials more time to take back an estimated $500 million in payments made to hospitals and physicians.
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No one's safe | Providers left wondering where cuts will hit
By Jessica Zigmond | December 08, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
As lawmakers search for ways to avert the fiscal cliff, providers find themselves in a labyrinth. Broad deficit-reduction proposals for more cuts to federal healthcare payments are coming from both sides of the aisle.
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Targeting provider taxes | Hospitals fear Medicaid-wary states
By Rich Daly | December 08, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
One option under consideration as a piece of solving the federal government's debt problem could undermine the Medicaid expansion that's supposed to cover millions more Americans beginning in 2014.
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Late News: Defending deductions | AHA among organizations against cap decrease
By Ashok Selvam | December 08, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The American Hospital Association joined the chorus of not-for-profit organizations that want Congress to protect tax breaks given to those who make donations to not-for-profit organizations.
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Lawmakers urged to protect charity deductions
By Ashok Selvam | December 07, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Healthcare groups, including the American Hospital Association, want Congress to protect tax breaks given to those who make donations to not-for-profit organizations.
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Fearing the fiscal cliff | Hospitals detail approaches to slow looming cuts
By Rich Daly | December 01, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Cook County Health and Hospitals System garnered some unusual attention recently in Washington. And it is the kind of notice hospitals are eager for as post-election fighting over federal spending ramps up.
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AHA warns on impact of rate cuts for hospital-based docs
By Rich Daly | November 29, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Congress is focused on using a reduction in Medicare evaluation and management payments for hospitals as a way to help pay for delaying a physician pay cut, say hospital officials and advocates.
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AHA chief doubts all states will expand Medicaid
By Rich Daly | November 29, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The head of the leading hospital advocacy group is pessimistic that states will undertake the voluntary Medicaid expansion called for by the 2010 healthcare overhaul.
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Pinched by the ACA | AHA looks to IRS for relief on tax-exempt debt
By Melanie Evans | November 24, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Accountable care and bundled-payment deals made possible by the healthcare reform law could jeopardize not-for-profit hospitals' access to tax-exempt financing, the American Hospital Association said last week as it urged regulators to revamp rules.
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