Provisions of the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act now allow the federal government to provide a direct payment for qualifying renewable energy projects owned by tax-exempt entities.

The modern consumer’s experience with information about their health and healthcare is simultaneously plentiful and overwhelming.

Staffing shortages, skyrocketing labor costs, continuing supply chain disruptions, inflation, rising interest rates, and volatile markets are pressuring both revenue and expenses for hospitals and health systems in 2022.

As much as 80% of health outcomes are determined by circumstances and factors outside of clinical care.

M&A activity between hospitals and health systems in Q3 2022 remained low, with 10 announced transactions, but comparable to slower activity in Q3 2021, which had seven announced...

Not-for-profit healthcare issuance remains light across public and private funding channels. Uncertainty about the depth and breadth of capital access options persists but the main...

Aaron R. Crane, FHFMA, CPA, MHA, Healthcare Financial Management Association 2022-23 Chair, interviewed by Robert Fromberg, Chief Communications Officer, Kaufman Hall

How soon they forget. Throughout 2020 and 2021, the media was full of praise for hospitals and healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic was new...

Nine months into an extremely challenging year characterized by dramatic fluctuations in margin, U.S. hospitals and health systems are still operating substantially below pre-pandemic levels.

In the two and half years since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, consumer behavior has shifted dramatically—and potentially irreversibly—in every aspect of American life.

With one out of every two hospitals expected to show an operating loss in 2022, presentations to the rating agencies in many cases need to focus more on the turnaround plan and less on...

We see a continued modest capital formation environment. Bon Secours Mercy issued approximately $400 million of tax-exempt debt in a very difficult market. The transaction got done, but...