Health and wellness

Officials at the country's largest municipal healthcare system are tracking COVID-19 costs as they face headwinds from the state and federal governments.

The White House has shortened the enhanced Medicaid formula funding to two years from a proposed four years and continues to stall on publication of a Federal Register notice about the availability of the disaster aid.

The taxing and regulating of a new product that's ingested into the lungs to deliver nicotine is dealt with under federal, state and local laws. William Cox explains Kroll Bond Rating Agency's thoughts about vaping and the associated revenues for governments. John Hallacy hosts.

With closure of Hamlin Memorial Hospital, Texas has lost 19 rural hospitals since 2010, the most of any state.

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that Macomb County is not contractually bound to provide lifetime healthcare benefits to retirees.

Expect to see the dirt flying within the next month at West View Healthy Living.

Gov. Pete Ricketts, who won re-election last Tuesday, has said that expansion costs will be covered by existing revenue.

New Jersey’s health benefit agreements with public sector unions mark an important step toward managing a growing expense, according to Moody’s.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says the state will save $497 million over two years.

More than a decade after voters created the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas with $3 billion of bond funding, the state is nearing that goal with a $322 million deal this week.

The rating is one level below Advocate's existing rating and two higher than Aurora's.

Gov. Paul LePage and state lawmakers are at odds about how to fund a voter-approved Medicaid expansion that was supposed to take effect on July 2.

Salem faces unanticipated costs after cyanotoxins were found in the drinking water supply.

Halifax Health cannot use bonds to finance the construction of its 95-bed hospital in Deltona, a Volusia County judge ruled this week, dealing a setback to the public health system's strategy to pay for the $105 million project.

While there have been many attempts to contain healthcare costs, bond specialist Randy Miller and Dr. Philip Romero of the University of Oregon discuss their “Health Insurance Revenue Bond” and how this new approach in prerefunding liability can contain costs. John Hallacy hosts.

The plan calls for up to $55 million of borrowing to fund 2015 state health and pension benefits.

After venting frustration over services that are not planned for ProMedica's new hospital in Adrian Township, Lenawee County commissioners Wednesday approved issuing bonds to finance the hospital's construction.

Erie County Medical Center wired $17 million to Erie County last week as part of a borrowing deal that enables the hospital to build a new emergency department.

Since the Great Recession, the tech sector in New York has added over 57,000 jobs.

Health care giant University of Pittsburgh Medical Center plans to spend $235 million in the Harrisburg, York and Lancaster areas in 2018. Much of it would go toward a new hospital in York, with some also spent at three other midstate hospitals.