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A credit analyst for not-for-profit healthcare providers is cautioning that the new state health insurance exchanges may introduce more short-term risk than benefit.
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UnityPoint Health, until recently known as Iowa Health, is making its biggest reach so far outside of its home state.
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Highmark's turn to try to stanch losses at Pittsburgh's West Penn Allegheny Health System has begun.
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Not-for-profit healthcare providers are making a number of changes to decrease the burden of underfunded pension obligations, including making sweeping changes to their retirement plans and investment strategies.
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Moody's Investors Service said analysts would review and may downgrade the A3 credit rating for NYU Langone Medical Center's hospitals “following the damage and interruption” from superstorm Sandy.
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Moody's Investors Service said its analysts likely won't change state credit ratings based on whether states do or don't expand Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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The prospect of lowered reimbursement in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the healthcare reform law is fueling a continued negative outlook for the not-for-profit healthcare sector, according to a Moody's Investor Services mid-year report.
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The risk that banks represent to healthcare borrowers since the credit crisis is by now familiar. Hospitals that enter debt markets with bank credit backing can find investors wary or uninterested when banks' own credit strength falters. That can drive up interest rates or force borrowers to...
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Hospitals that have seen demand drop and more anemic Medicare revenue growth can expect more of the same in coming years, along with the challenge of gradually adapting to new payment models, a rating agency said in a newly released report.
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Moody's Investors Service said a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down one key insurance provision of the healthcare reform law would eliminate its “most credit positive feature” for not-for-profit hospitals.
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