Healthcare industry

Healthcare and utilities municipal bond issuance grew by a combined $27 billion to 2016 from 2015.

House Ways and Means Committee Democrats, worried that Republicans are sabotaging the Affordable Care Act, have asked three federal agencies for information about how they are implementing President Trump’s executive order on repealing the law.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy’s $40.6 billion biennial budget measures aim to closing a $1.7 billion annual deficit. He also wants to tax hospital properties for the first time.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has formed a task force charged with recommending how to tackle local governments’ unfunded retirement obligations.

In a critical year for the Texas health-care industry, the state's leaders have indicated no interest in tapping the state's growing rainy day fund to cover $1.2 billion in Medicaid underfunding.

Lakeland Regional Health and Orlando Health disclosed to bondholders on EMMA that they have signed a letter of intent to create an integrated regional health care system.

North Carolina’s $38 billion of unfunded pension and retiree healthcare costs led a key committee to advise raising the state’s debt capacity and increasing annual funding to address the liabilities.

New Jersey healthcare providers are starring at escalating costs if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, according to the New Jersey Hospital Association.

California's cost for retiree health and dental benefits has grown to $76.68 billion, according to a report from State Controller Betty Yee.

Gainesville Hospital District in North Texas is reorganizing under Chapter 9 bankruptcy with $19.7 million of general obligation bonds insured by Ambac.

A repeal of the Affordable Care Act would hamper New Jersey finances, according to state lawmakers fighting to save the landmark national healthcare program.

A Northern California healthcare district that closed its only hospital with $57 million of certificates of participation outstanding is sorting out its obligations in bankruptcy court.

After R.J. Reynolds sold four cigarette brands to ITG Brands, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi sued the companies saying they have refused to comply with terms of the state’s 1997 tobacco settlement deal.

Moody’s Investors Service late Friday revised its outlook to stable from negative on the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.

The California Public Finance Authority will price $110 million in revenue bonds next week for Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, Calif. in the hospital’s first public market offering without the benefit of bond insurance in more than a decade.

A five-year-old Illinois law that safeguards not-for-profit hospitals’ local tax exemptions in exchange for meeting minimum charity and community care standards is before the Illinois Supreme Court.

Analysts affirmed the stable outlook for the healthcare sector, while acknowledging that repeal of the Affordable Care Act could change the landscape.

Fund managers' reaction to a possible repeal ranged from cautious to opportunistic, as President-elect Trump and lawmakers say they plan to transition to a new health care program.

Municipal market participants and others need not panic over the Republican threats to repeal the Affordable Care Act because health care plans are locked in under the ACA until at least 2019, a key member of President-elect Trump’s transition team said Thursday.

The harmful effects of a repeal of the federal Affordable Care Act without a replacement package to soften the blow would extend beyond hospitals to lllinois' economy, according to the state hospital association.