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The Motley Fool December 13, 2010 Sean Williams	This Is the Investing Equivalent of Dumb and Dumber The story of Tenet Healthcare and Community Health Services shows what happens when too much debt meets declining business model.
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 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 October 7, 2009 Dave Mock	A Big Upgrade for Tenet Healthcare This bullish call comes from more than just one analyst.
Financial Planning July 1, 2006 Robert M. Hayes	Preserve Medicare Medicare is a roadmap for the future healthcare of America. It should be fine-tuned and improved, not undermined and privatized as the Washington power brokers are now attempting to do.
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.
The Motley Fool September 6, 2011 Travis Hoium	Central European Distribution Shares Dropped: What You Need to Know Shares of vodka producer and distributor Central European Distribution are down 10% today after a great week last week.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2009 Andrew Dick	Understanding Federal Healthcare Laws Commercial real estate professionals who work with medical office development must be aware of the federal healthcare fraud and abuse laws.
CFO September 1, 2007 John Goff	Critical Condition Tenet Healthcare has been laid low by scandal, fraud, and cash-draining litigation. Can new CFO Biggs Porter help cure the ailing hospital operator?
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.
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	Health Care: The Patient Will Live, But... Employers and consumers will continue to get hammered by rising premiums, but health-care costs will rise a bit more slowly, which is good news for insurers.
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.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2009 Andrew Dick	Deal Diagnosis Healthcare real estate transactions not only are driven by economic factors, but also by compliance with federal and state healthcare laws.
The Motley Fool May 16, 2011 Dan Caplinger	Don't Let This Kill Your Retirement Social Security and Medicare look sick. Here's how to handle it.
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2007 Humphrey Taylor	Opinion: Myth vs. Reality The debate about reform of the American healthcare system has been ideologically driven rather than evidence-based. Here, we separate myth from reality.
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.
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Managed Care May 2002	Primary Care Suffers Under M+C, Study Says Medicare+Choice compares unfavorably with traditional fee-for-service Medicare in 9 out of 11 features linked to primary care, according to a study funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that is generating interest and controversy
The Motley Fool February 24, 2009 Brian Orelli	Health Insurers Hammered. Again. Health insurers were blown away by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' announcement that it plans to raise the 2010 Medicare Advantage payment rates by only 0.5%.
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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.
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The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Brian Orelli	Are Health Insurers Losing Their Pricing Power? Health insurers have been hit particularly hard recently, as medical costs have risen considerably faster than insurers were expecting.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2005 Robert Ullmann	Back Page: Unhealthy Justice More than any other healthcare law, the Medicare/Medicaid exclusion statute has distorted our criminal justice system with government fraud investigations. This well-intentioned but misguided law should be repealed.
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!
Managed Care February 2006	Managed Care Offered to More Medicaid Enrollees A chart illustrates the percentage of medicaid enrollees in managed care, for the years 1996 to 2004.
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.
Managed Care May 2006	Headlines On Deadline . . . Health plans appear to be having some trouble fulfilling a federal mandate that 80 percent of questions from Medicare beneficiaries about pharmacy coverage be answered within 30 seconds.
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Managed Care December 2006 MargaretAnn Cross	Confronting The Medicare Cost Shift Plans are increasingly concerned about the degree to which providers overcharge them to make up for losses from government programs.
BusinessWeek January 22, 2007 Arlene Weintraub	Open-Heart Nightmare "Coronary: A True Story of Medicine Gone Awry" casts a beacon on the all-too-frequent association of medicine and the pursuit of profit.
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.
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2004 Matt Hudgins	Pain Relief for Hospitals Hospital systems are anxious to get out of the landlord business as increasing liability insurance costs and reduced Medicare and Medicaid payments put the squeeze on capital budgets.
Managed Care March 2007 John Carroll	Democratic Agenda Places Medicare Advantage at Risk Battle lines are drawn over proposals to raid the Medicare managed care program of funds to be applied to other health care needs. Democrats themselves are split.
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Insurance & Technology April 19, 2005 Wendy Toth	MMA Means Modernization Policy management systems will need to be updated to provide prescription drug benefits and additional healthcare choices to people who rely on Medicare in accordance with the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2006 Tim Beyers	Baby Breaker Birth Announcements We track the week in private equity in search of investments of the future: NewHope Bariatrics... Nanospectra Biosciences...
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BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Arlene Weintraub	Miracle Cure -- Or Weak Medicine Why investors' hopes for a prescription drug bonanza may be premature.
National Real Estate Investor April 23, 2003 Parke Chapman	Revenues drop sharply for health care REIT Scandals in the health care sector and a shaky real estate market have taken a toll on one of the nation's largest health care REITs.
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Managed Care July 2002	CBO Weighs Effect of Growing Deficit on Fed Programs Health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid figure to suffer, thanks to a growing federal budget deficit, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office.
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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.