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Outsourcing costs to vendors like CarePayment, ClearBalance offset by higher collections, executives say.

While the legacy skin test is cheaper in terms of materials, it requires more staff time, and a greater commitment on the part of the patient.

The data show that prices vary widely even within the most expensive regions. Patients, however, rarely know how much a procedure will cost until they receive the bill.

Michael D. Williams, president and the founding CEO of Community Hospital Corp., has announced his retirement from the organization after a 20-year stint. He'll continue to serve in that capacity until a new CEO is in place, which is expected to be around the end of June 2017.

The new HEDIS technical specifications include four new measures, changes to seven existing measures and one that's been retired altogether.

After legal battles and lobbying efforts, tens of thousands of people with hepatitis C are gaining earlier access to expensive drugs that can cure this condition.

Out-of-pocket expenses have dropped for employees while access to care has not suffered, executives say.

The study's authors said research into practice-level implementation should be the next step, particularly since the vast majority of research conducted to date has been under old -- and possibly soon-to-be-outdated -- care delivery models.

CMS said the initiative is part of a broader effort to improve care and spend money more wisely by making use of available data.

Obama administration is making a push to get young adults covered on the health insurance marketplaces, both for their own good and that of the marketplaces, which need healthy people to balance sicker ones in the risk pool.