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Low operating margin helps hospital break even on Medicare patients
At a time when nearly 60 percent of hospitals lose 20 cents on the dollar for every elderly patient, Providence Regional Medical Center breaks even. This, despite its high percentage of Medicare... Read more...
AHA: Hospital margins down for fourth quarter
A new report from the American Hospital Association concludes that hospitals dove deeper into the negative margin zone during the fourth quarter of 2008, driven by forces--lower volume and... Read more...
New research says U.S. hospitals in trouble
These are among the grimmest times in recent memory for U.S. hospital finances, according new research set to be released today from Thomson Reuters. The Thomson Reuters analysis concludes that... Read more...
New Jersey hospitals in trouble, trade group says
A survey of about half of the state's hospitals has revealed what we already could have guessed--that New Jersey facilities, like their peers elsewhere, are struggling to stay afloat, with some on... Read more...
