Editor Columns

Philip Betbeze covers finance for HealthLeaders Media Online and HealthLeaders Magazine. You can e-mail Philip directly at PBetbeze@healthleadersmedia.com.

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December 1, 2008
Parkland Redux
November 17, 2008
Good Thing Hospitals Are Closing
November 10, 2008
Just Not Good Enough
November 3, 2008
CDHPs Aren't Going Away
October 27, 2008
Dealing With the Credit Conundrum
October 20, 2008
Readers Write
October 13, 2008
MRSA: Your Cost Problem
October 6, 2008
Knee Replacement Surgery? Please Hold For Your Price
September 29, 2008
Take This Health Plan and Shove It
September 22, 2008
An Odd, Bad Feeling
September 15, 2008
Warning Signs
September 8, 2008
With Hospital Bills, I'm Scarred But Smarter
September 2, 2008
Reader Mail
August 25, 2008
Be Glad You’re Not Running a Bank
August 15, 2008
Dick Scruggs, the Bell Tolls for Thee
August 11, 2008
SEC Rule to Require Vote on Universal Healthcare
August 4, 2008
Nervous About Retail Clinics? It Just Got Worse
July 28, 2008
Memo to Voters: Go Tax Yourself
July 21, 2008
CMS: We Pay Dead People
July 14, 2008
Writing So a 4-Year-Old Can Understand
July 7, 2008
Unfair Competition, Part 2
June 23, 2008
Not-So-Fair Competition?
June 16, 2008
Sounding Board
June 9, 2008
The Price is Wrong
June 2, 2008
The Truth About Cross-Subsidization
May 19, 2008
Readers Write
May 12, 2008
Do Oil and Healthcare Mix?
May 5, 2008
Employers Get a Grip
April 28, 2008
Creative Destruction
April 21, 2008
Revenue Cycle Massage, Anyone?
April 14, 2008
Cross Purposes
April 7, 2008
Readers Write
March 31, 2008
Taking Investing to a New Level
March 24, 2008
If It's Broke, Fix It
March 17, 2008
Is P4P Working?
March 10, 2008
Board Members, Are You Paying Attention?
March 3, 2008
This is Gonna Cost You
February 25, 2008
The 'Worst' Healthcare Payment Scheme
February 19, 2008
Misery Loves Company
February 11, 2008
Hospitals in Permanent Decline?
February 4, 2008
New Allies in Covering the Uninsured
January 28, 2008
An Agency of Their Own
January 21, 2008
Throwing Out the Good with the Bad
January 14, 2008
Readers Write...
January 7, 2008
Welcome to 2008! We're in Debt Up to Our Eyeballs!