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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday launched a new risk-based primary care initiative that it hopes will accelerate the movement towards value-based reimbursement for medical practices.

National health spending in February was 4.8 percent higher than spending during the same month in 2015, according to a new report by the Altarum Institute, marking the fourth consecutive month in which spending growth has been below 5 percent.

The move could signal the beginnings of a new wave of RCM work in healthcare, a market emphasis that analysts figure is a multi-billion dollar opportunity.

At least this far in, the fears of massive claims rejections, crashing cash flows and full-blown chaos were largely unfounded.

At Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Health System, achieving scale meant creating a system-wide supply chain infrastructure rather than allowing each facility to oversee its own device purchasing.

Often hired by the local health department, they take on diverse public health initiatives -- running diabetes or nutrition education programs, counseling patients to stick to their medication regimens or teaching new mothers about vaccinations.

As cyberattacks of healthcare systems become more frequent and call attention to the question of whether sensitive data is secure, the Government Accountability Office has released a report identifying significant weaknesses at three selected state-based marketplaces: California, Kentucky and Vermont.

UnitedHealth Group has decided to quit the exchange market in two states, Georgia and Arkansas, according to published reports Friday.

The largest increase in the number of insured adults has occurred among those paying for a plan themselves, according to Gallup.

Almost 30 percent of the 11,990 practicing urologists in the United States are holding off on retirement until at least age 71. That's compared to 22.7 percent a year ago according to the American Urological Association's 2015 Annual Census.