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The Motley Fool July 25, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Triad Hospitals Looking Healthy The rural hospital operator is in good shape. All the same, the current P/E looks a little robust for a company that will most likely grow in the mid-teens for the next few years.
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.
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 May 2, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Code Brown on HCA Under the current rules, running a hospital is virtually a no-win situation. HCA is likely a fine hospital operator, but this is an industry doomed to take body blows from almost every constituency it serves or interacts with.
The Motley Fool March 10, 2004 J. Graham	Triad Hospitals' Balancing Act Triad Hospitals disappoints with negative earnings and aggressive accounting.
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 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.
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 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 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 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 July 24, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	HCA Investors Get a Parting Gift This huge hospital operator goes private amidst further declines in profitability.
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 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 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.
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?
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.
Managed Care September 2005 Ed Silverman	No Easy Fit For Specialty Hospitals Insurers worry that specialty hospitals will ultimately increase costs at nearby community hospitals
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.
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.
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices.
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.
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 March 22, 2007 Tom Taulli	Triad's Healthy Deal A peek at the proxy sheds light on Community Health System's $5.1 billion deal for Triad. Investors, take note.
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 April 18, 2011 Travis Hoium	Community Health Systems Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of hospital owner Community Health Systems fell 10% briefly this morning after the company changed its buyout offer for Tenet Healthcare.
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.
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.
BusinessWeek October 1, 2009 Sasseen & Arnst	Why Business Fears the Public Option Executives contend that it will lead health-care providers to charge patients in private plans higher rates.
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.
BusinessWeek November 20, 2008	Financial Triage Innovative ways that hospitals are looking at patient finances.
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Hunting For Hospitals That Measure Up New Web sites can help you become an educated health-care consumer
BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 Lorraine Woellert	How Much Is That Brain Scan? If turning Americans into price-conscious health-care shoppers is ever going to work, it will require wholesale changes in many of the industry's most basic business practices.
American Family Physician February 15, 2003	Newsletter House Bill May Reclaim Title VII Family Practice Training Funds... Health Care Spending in the United States Increased by 8.7 Percent in 2001... Two Surveys Demonstrate Negative Economic Impact of Medicaid Reductions... AHRQ Releases Fact Book on Women's Health Care in U.S. Hospitals... FDA Establishes Task Force on Consumer Nutrition Health Information...
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!
The Motley Fool February 22, 2007 Tom Taulli	HealthStream Is More Like a Puddle A major technology transition is slowing the growth at this e-learning software developer for the health-care sector. Investors, take note.
InternetNews June 27, 2006 Michael Hickins	Hospital, HMO Ratings 'Open' to Public New York State adopts online scorecards allowing employers and consumers to review local hospitals and HMOs.
BusinessWeek May 6, 2010 David Olmos	Data Mining Helps Hospitals Pry Fees from Patients Billing software companies are helping hospitals identify patients with enough assets to cover their bills but who may need help figuring out to do it.
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.
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.
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?
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Arlene Weintraub	A Remedy For Malpractice Malaise Hospitals are offering free coverage to recruit doctors from private practice
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.
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.
Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll	Specialty Hospitals' Success Sows Seeds of Lobbying Fight Some in government question the propriety of physicians steering patients into facilities that the doctors partly own.
Managed Care December 2006 John Marcille	Hidden Tax Takes a Toll, Distorting Health Care Financing Maybe it's time the health insurance industry joins the lobbying effort to have the government pay what it actually costs to provide services to patients in hospitals.
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.
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.
Managed Care May 2002 John Carroll	Hospital Copayments: At What Cost? High daily copayments for high-priced hospitals are coming into fashion. It's all about shifting costs, but what about quality of care?
Managed Care April 2007	Consumers Upset By High Cost of Administration When it comes to health care administrations, there is a wide gap between what executives of hospitals and insurance companies believe it costs and what consumers believe.