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Debt issuance has been modest, but there is significant building supply. The issuance context is continuing benchmark and credit spread disruption as markets react to competing...

SVP, Lisa Goldstein, shares what she learned about hospitals, healthcare, and the not-for-profit mission from her breast cancer journey.

Kaufman Hall co-founder and Chair Ken Kaufman and Senior Vice President Lisa Goldstein—formerly a longtime not-for-profit hospital ratings analyst for Moody’s—recently explored the evolving perspectives of healthcare leaders on how to best balance credit ratings with other key strategic imperatives, including the rising importance of health equity

As organizations consider how to respond to rising rates, one option is introducing capital structure risk: using floating rate products, put bonds, or other structures that move debt to a lower cost point on the yield curve in exchange for assuming risk.

Almost everything that not-for-profit hospital ratings analysts evaluate can be measured, quantified, and databased. Except for one: governance.

A university explores partnerships as a middle ground between its current state and a cost reduction effort that would eliminate programs and services.

One of the COVID pandemic’s most bitter lessons has been the complete inadequacy and dysfunction of the U.S. public health system, if the word “system” can even be applied.

Healthcare issuance has been relatively modest over the past several weeks, with a mix of tax-exempt and taxable transactions across the credit curve. Transactions continue to get done...

“Will I be downgraded if my organization’s margins decline because I am investing for its future?” This is one of the most common questions that provider organizations ask ratings...

Artificial intelligence is a new idea that even data experts don’t fully understand. It requires a new view of the role of healthcare in improving health and preventing disease.

As the COVID crisis moderates, the question for most organizations is whether to maintain lines of credit. The answer requires clarity on the purpose of these facilities today.

Over the years, I have had many things that I have wanted to tell the executives at not-for-profit hospitals. As a ratings analyst, however, I couldn’t. Now I can. This is the first of...