Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

The Motley Fool October 25, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Unpaid Bills Bedevil Triad Doubtful accounts were up to 11.2% after excluding self-pay discounts, and the company raised its allowance for doubtful accounts for the remainder of the year. This is a key problem for hospital operators. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Triad Hospitals Still Ailing Better days could be ahead for Triad, but they're not here yet. Here's where investing gets tricky.
BusinessWeek August 14, 2006 Timothy J. Mullaney	Massive Buyout, Little Wiggle Room The $33 billion HCA deal will have to work perfectly to work at all.
The Motley Fool July 24, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	HCA Investors Get a Parting Gift This huge hospital operator goes private amidst further declines in profitability.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2005 W.D. Crotty	HCA's Strong Heartbeat The health care giant raises earnings guidance, but its vital signs bear watching.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Health Care's Unique Risk Select Medical is just the latest to suffer from regulatory changes.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Triad Tries for More Hospitals are still a lousy business. Simple ratio analysis doesn't get you too far in investing, but it does illustrate a point with hospital stocks like Triad.
The Motley Fool January 10, 2006 W.D. Crotty	LifePoint's Vital Signs Fall The hospital operator lowers earnings guidance, and sees shares slide. Conservative investors should step aside and watch from the sidelines.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2011 David Williamson	HCA Leads the Way HCA, the for-profit hospital company, returned to the publicly traded stock market in dramatic fashion earlier this month, and there has been much rejoicing by shareholders since.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Shiny Happy Psychiatric Solutions The growth-through-consolidation story continues apace for Psychiatric Solutions. Investors, caution is warranted here.
The Motley Fool May 17, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	A Tenet of Faith Every few months for the past few years, I've read about some analyst or fund manager making a value call on Tenet Healthcare. Pull up a five-year chart, though, and you'll see that just about every one of those folks has gotten skewered by that call. Investors, beware.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2011 Anders Bylund	Universal Health Services Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of hospital and care center operator Universal Health Services are taking a sick day today after falling as much as 10.9% on heavy volume.
CFO January 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	Operating Room Rising hospital costs, a plague to most companies, have helped some health-care CFOs nurse profits back to health.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	HMA: A Healthy Value? Is the rural hospital operator recovering, or fading fast? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 26, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	HMA Is Sickly The HCA bid could confirm that negative hospital industry trends have reached their peak. HMA CEO Joseph Vumbacco also confirmed that his company was not in talks with private equity firms, not that the stock moved up in hopes that a deal was on the horizon.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Can United Surgical Cut It? Case volume seems light, but the company is a big player in a good market niche. Current prices may not suggest a whole lot of upside here, but this might be a reasonable candidate for the watch list.
The Motley Fool February 27, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	AmSurg Under the Knife AmSurg has an attractive but risky model, and growth projections might be aggressive. This stock looks a little tricky.
BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 Dean Foust	Weaker Vital Signs At Hospitals The number of patients in default on their bills is off the charts
The Motley Fool January 9, 2012 Sean Williams	Health Management Associates Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of hospital and health-care facility operator Health Management Associates swooned by as much as 12% earlier in the trading session following negative analyst comments about the sector last week.
The Motley Fool February 23, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Making Short Work of Surgery United Surgical Partners prospers by working with hospitals instead of against them. While valuation isn't cheap, that has to be considered in the context of a company that is growing at a 30%-plus clip.
The Motley Fool September 2, 2004 Rich Smith	Translating Your Doctor Bill A lawsuit is currently in the works aiming to overturn an unfunded federal mandate that requires federally funded hospitals, clinics, and doctors to make translators available to patients who speak limited English.
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices.
The Motley Fool December 13, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Tenet: A Real Soap Opera The acute care hospital operator Tenet Healthcare sees bad news for quarters to come. With today's news, the stock is down almost 10% to under $11.
The Motley Fool November 2, 2011 Selena Maranjian	Make Money in Health-Care Providers the Easy Way If you expect health-care companies to thrive as our population ages, the iShares DJ US Health Care Providers ETF could save you a lot of trouble.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Tenet Can Start Healing Tenet Healthcare investors had a potentially serious threat dangling precariously over them. But a major settlement with the federal government should clear the decks.
BusinessWeek September 9, 2010 Bruce Einhorn	In Asia, Public Health Care Gets Less Public Health-care policymakers in Asia are encouraging more affluent Asians to use private hospitals and their own funds.
Managed Care July 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Hospitals Asked To Account For Errors on Their Watch Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and states may stop paying for specific hospital-acquired conditions. Will health plans follow suit?
The Motley Fool April 27, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Guidance Brings Zimmer to Its Knees Sales were a little light this quarter, and the company will have to hustle to meet full-year projections. Investors, tread carefully and only buy when there is a fitting margin of safety here.
BusinessWeek February 20, 2006 Arlene Weintraub	Should Doctors Own Hospitals? Controversy builds over a fast-growing, profit-driven business in which specialty hospitals are partly owned and run by doctors.
The Motley Fool August 11, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Tenet Off the Respirator Tenet Healthcare is doing better, but still has a long road back to health. Investors who want to dabble here should be extra careful on their due diligence.
The Motley Fool September 23, 2005 Seth Jayson	More Scrutiny of Senator's Good Fortune Federal prosecutors and the SEC want to know more about Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's timely stock sale of hospital operator HCA.
BusinessWeek October 9, 2006 Joseph Weber	UnitedHealth vs. HCA: It's Ugly UnitedHealth's contract dispute is leaving patients and docs out in the cold.
Nursing Management April 2009 Sharon H. Pappas	Profits, Payers, and Patients: Responding to Changes Profit is necessary for hospitals to fulfill their missions, invest in expansion and new technologies, and reinvest in existing patient care infrastructures. Profitability is the work of the financial team and the clinical team to produce the hospital's desired financial outcome.
The Motley Fool February 15, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Psychiatric Solutions Healthy Provider of in-patient mental health services continues to grow rapidly, but debt and dilution are reason for pause.
The Motley Fool April 8, 2011 Yael Grauer	Medtronic to Combine Cardiac and Vascular Sales Forces What does Medtronic's new sales strategy mean?
The Motley Fool February 9, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Growth Not Enough for Smith & Nephew This orthopedic company has market-leading growth, but just not enough cash flow. Investors shouldn't get too excited about these shares.
Managed Care October 2003 Ed Silverman	Tough Negotiations in Store Between Plans and Hospitals Fallout from the Medicare outlier-payment scandal is likely to force hospitals to try to replace that revenue. Health plans, prepare to negotiate!
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Mullaney & Weintraub	The Digital Hospital Information technology saves lives and money at one medical center, perhaps becoming the future of health care.
Managed Care May 2005 Frank Diamond	Hospitals May See Plans as Their New Confidant Not only can health plans pay for performance, they can offer a mechanism for confidential discussions of mistakes.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2006 Querna & Fischman	Good Medical Help Close to Home Your local hospital might be just as good as any glittery big-name center. Finding out if your local hospital is up to snuff requires some homework. Here are the major factors in judging the quality of care, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue.
Managed Care January 2008	Headlines on Deadline ... Private insurers paid $272 billion in hospital charges in 2005... More than half of health care payers surveyed planned no additional investment in transparency initiatives in 2008...
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals.
Inc. September 2007 Cara Cannella	How I Did It: Todd Johnson, President and CEO, Hospital Partners of America Cost pressures may be straining health care providers, but there is money in the hospital business.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Psychiatric Solutions' Happy Investors Strong management in an underserved market spells profitable opportunity for the company and its shareholders.
The Motley Fool March 10, 2004 J. Graham	Triad Hospitals' Balancing Act Triad Hospitals disappoints with negative earnings and aggressive accounting.
The Motley Fool December 31, 2004 W.D. Crotty	HealthSouth's Payment Plan The health-care provider's stock is up on settlement news, but buyers should beware.
IDB America September 2004 Daniel Drosdoff	A Smarter Use of Healthcare Dollars Trinidad restructures its health system in order to improve quality and make better use of facilities.
BusinessWeek January 7, 2010 Catherine Arnst	Hospitals: Radical Cost Surgery A hospital that slashes costs - and delivers high-quality care as it innovates? Yes, it exists.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006	Alternative Media: Time to Change the Channel Upgraded hospital television and Internet systems equal new marketing opportunities.
Fast Company September 2006 Paul Lukas	Halcyon Hospitals In most respects, the Dream Hospital of 1953 barely hinted at future advances. But the biggest challenge hospitals may face is that medical advances could render entire wards -- and profit centers -- obsolete.