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Vital Signs
Moody's warns exchanges could carry more short-term risk than benefit
By Beth Kutscher | October 11, 2013
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 adds Meriter to affiliated providers
By Modern Healthcare | October 10, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
UnityPoint Health, until recently known as Iowa Health, is making its biggest reach so far outside of its home state.
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Vital Signs
Highmark lays off workers, eliminates positions at West Penn
By Melanie Evans | July 26, 2013
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 move to ease pension burdens
By Beth Kutscher | May 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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 to review NYU Langone credit rating
By Melanie Evans | November 21, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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State credit ratings don't hinge on Medicaid expansion: Moody's
By Melanie Evans | August 21, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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Outlook stays negative for not-for-profits: Moody's
By Ashok Selvam | August 16, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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Bank downgrade, borrower uncertainty
June 25, 2012
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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Moody's sees revenue challenges continuing
By Melanie Evans | May 09, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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Cutting mandate would hurt hospitals: Moody's
By Melanie Evans | April 24, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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