Recently Tenet Healthcare facilities around the country have come under investigation and faced lawsuits.
Tenet Healthcare jumped 10.1% to set the pace, while Hospira, a provider of generic injectable drugs, rallied 4.1%.
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Tenet Healthcare, the company that owns Memorial, told CNN that most of the 45 patients who died were critically ill.
Tenet Healthcare, for one, has offered Blue Cross Blue Shield a discount of 10 percent off of its standard commercial rates.
Aside from the top 15 spenders listed, other heavy hitters for the Democrats include Trevor Fetter, CEO of Tenet Healthcare Corp.
The article plays off of news that hospital chain Tenet Healthcare (NYSE: THC) made earlier this week on its earnings call.
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Tenet Healthcare, HCA Holdings, Universal Health Services, Community Health Systems, Health Management Associates, to name but a few, are all publicly traded hospital companies.
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Todd Roscoe, a former executive at the hospital chain Tenet Healthcare, says that a 40% discount off the inflated list price is the norm for cash-paying customers.
Tenet Healthcare ( THC - news - people ), says that a 40% discount off the inflated list price is the norm for cash-paying customers.
The North Shore Regional Medical Center in Slidell, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans, remained fully operational with 174 beds, said Steve Campanini, spokesman for Tenet HealthCare, which operates it.
Tenet Healthcare dropped 11% while Medtronic lost 6%.
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Trevor Fetter, President and CEO, Tenet Healthcare Corp.
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Cripe even wrote a book, "Greed, Scandal and Wrongful Deaths at Tenet Healthcare Corporation, " detailing the various investigations and accusing Tenet of cutting costs, cutting care and breaking rules to increase profits.
Tenet Healthcare and Denbury Resources this week became the latest high-yield issuers to capture coupon rates that were below the 5% threshold, and in doing so they logged some new records.
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As HCA struggles with such issues, Tenet Healthcare (nyse: THC - news - people ), its biggest rival, saw one of its California hospitals raided by the FBI in October.
Investor-owned hospitals like those operated by Community Health Systems, Inc. (CYH), HCA Holdings Inc. (HCA), Tenet Healthcare Corp. (THC) and Health Management Associates (HMA) are seeing impressing gains for their stocks.
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Tenet Healthcare (THC) and Vanguard Health Systems (VHS) will also win political cover in Washington and in the communities in which they operate where their commitment to charity care has long been called into question.
"We're going in the wrong direction, " says James A. Unruh, founding partner of Alerion Capital Group, former chairman and CEO of Unisys and currently an outside director of CSG, Prudential Financial, Qwest Communications and Tenet Healthcare.
Among the largest underlying components of JKL, in trading today Tenet Healthcare Corp. ( NYSE: THC) is up about 0.7%, Axiall Corp ( NYSE: AXLL) is up about 1%, and Assured Guaranty Ltd ( NYSE: AGO) is up by about 0.9%.
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Among the largest underlying components of FXH, in trading today Amerigroup Corp ( NYSE: AGP) is up about 0.1%, Tenet Healthcare Corp. ( NYSE: THC) is up about 1%, and Community Health Systems, Inc. ( NYSE: CYH) is up by about 1%.
Among the largest underlying components of JKL, in trading today Tenet Healthcare Corp. ( NYSE: THC) is up about 2%, Community Health Systems, Inc. ( NYSE: CYH) is up about 1.5%, and Assured Guaranty Ltd ( NYSE: AGO) is up by about 2.8%.
At another local hospital, Memorial Medical Center, a small fleet of helicopters was brought in to evacuate patients and staff after hospital officials were told "by officials on the ground to take the matter into our own hands, " said Trevor Fetter, president of Tenet HealthCare Corp.
Tenet Healthcare, based in Dallas, Texas, sent a letter to CNN on Wednesday stating that it understands from the Louisiana Attorney General's Office that it is not a target of the investigation and insists that all of its Gulf Coast hospitals, including Memorial, were prepared in advance for Hurricane Katrina.
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