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Listen to the podcast: http://news.cuna.org/articles/113263-podcast-the-power-in-knowing Finance teams are asked for reports from across the credit union, from budgeting and performance...

The House Republicans’ draft tax-reform legislation threatens the financial health of not-for-profit hospitals and health systems. To the surprise of industry analysts, the November 2, 2017, draft included provisions that would significantly raise the cost of capital and limit financing options for 501(c)(3) hospitals and health systems.

On November 2, U.S. House Republicans released a sweeping tax reform bill that could have a devastating effect on not-for-profit healthcare organizations, significantly increasing the...

End-of-life care is among the U.S. healthcare system’s largest and most enduring challenges, both in terms of quality and cost.

Outlined here are six practices that provider organizations should use in their assessment of any contract, whether risk-based or fee-for-service with pay-for-performance components.

“Companies never choose to die, and yet many by not evolving are enabling that kind of fate.”

When any disruptive force appears to threaten the physical wellbeing of patients—or the financial wellbeing of hospitals and physicians—the understandable first response is to push back.

Many healthcare organizations continue to have significant legacy fixed pay interest rate swap portfolios. Most of these existing swap positions are long-dated structures that were put in place before the credit crisis and have remained in place largely due to the unacceptable termination costs.

In a new report, The Financial Resilience of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) indicates that although challenges facing higher education...

The US economic climate, unsustainable spending on healthcare, an evolving insurance market, technological advances, and increased healthcare decision making by Internet-empowered consumers accelerated the emergence of a new business model.

Hospital-based and independent labs are increasingly challenged by depressed volume, declining payment rates, and disruptive innovation. These challenges and others are leading many laboratory and diagnostic services providers to explore mergers, acquisitions, and other affiliations as vehicles to gain greater scale and improve their competitive positions.

“Finding those points where there’s common ground is where you can really make some progress.” Kaufman Hall: What is your system’s most innovative program today? David Blom: Our...