December 2008

This Month's Features

  • November 30, 2008 | COMMENTS ()

    How will Obama affect healthcare?

    WASHINGTON – Healthcare leaders are optimistic that President-elect Barack Obama will follow through on his pledge to expand access to care and commit $50 billion over five years to advance heal...

  • November 30, 2008 | COMMENTS ()

    Election results offer promise, peril for hospitals

    WASHINGTON – Now that Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States and the Democrats have strengthened their control of Congress, what can hospitals expect from the federal gover...

Industry News

  • Payers move forward with an agenda of reforms

    Patty Enrado

    WASHINGTON – As the industry anticipates major changes from Washington, D.C., payers are forging ahead with their own healthcare reforms.Healthcare IT and the introduction of products t...

  • Hospitals face same issues in '09

    Richard Pizzi

    HOSPITAL EXECUTIVES confronted many big issues in 2008, and most of those concerns will be equally as important to them in 2009.The general decline of the U.S. economy has already hit healthc...

  • Vendors' View: Focus on the bottom line

    Healthcare Finance News Staff

    FOR VENDORS in the healthcare finance sector, 2008 was perhaps best defined by a blockbuster merger that was announced in March and nearly derailed by financial concerns in September before coming to...

  • Wanted: Lawmakers with 'can do' attitude

    Diana Manos

    MINUTES AFTER the election, Congress was already astir with the possibilities of healthcare reform. As well they should be. The voters made it perfectly clear that healthcare is an issue they don't wa...