News Source: Palm Beach Post
| about 1 month ago
Hawaii would be allowed to opt out of key requirements of national health care reform legislation, the only state given such a privilege because it already has its own comprehensive health insurance law. Hawaii's exemption is written into three...
News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| about 1 month ago
Hawaii's 16 hospitals are continuing to lose money. More Business That's the finding of a study the Ernst & Young accounting firm conducted for the Healthcare Association of Hawaii. It says the island hospitals had operating losses of $187 million...
News Source: Honolulu Advertiser
| about 1 month ago
Hawaii's hospitals struggled financially in 2008, rolling up operating losses of $187 million, a new report says. It was the ninth consecutive year in which costs outstripped payments hospitals received, with projections calling for the losses to...
News Source: Star-Bulletin
| about 1 month ago
Hawaii's 16 hospitals lost $187 million on patient care last year — a drop from the previous year's $212 million — but losses are expected to mount, says Terri Fujii, managing partner at the Ernst and Young accounting firm...About 12,100 more...