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Despite financial woes, healthcare stocks up
With healthcare facing some of its biggest financial challenges in years, particularly a growth in bad debt and slides in federal reimbursement, you wouldn't think that industry stocks would be doing Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Hospitals working to avoid needless ED care; FDA may soon require epilepsy drug labeling; and much more...
> Hoping to avoid further bad debt, hospitals are setting systems in place to avoid providing non-emergency ED care. Read more...
ALSO NOTED: For-profits see bad debt drop during first quarter of '08; Bayer fined $16.2 million for price-fixing; and much mor
> As it turns out, for-profits actually saw bad debt expense go down during the first quarter of this year despite nasty market conditions. Read more...
Cigna first-quarter profits drop 80 percent
Uh oh--this can't be good. A multitude of insurers have have posted rather disappointing financial results, including UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Health Net and WellPoint--and now another big Read more...
Flu bug boosts hospital revenue
While it hasn't been great for patients, the flu bug has done hospitals a favor. This year's crop of flu shots turned out to be less effective than expected for current strains of the virus, so more Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Provider bad debt expected to rise; Three-quarters of states developing health info exchanges; and much more...
> Analysts are predicting that with health plan profits shrinking, premiums will rise, consumers will be expected to carry more of the bill, and providers' bad debt will rise. Read more...
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