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To ease the financial burden, the California agency that governs the state's Affordable Care Act marketplace issued landmark rules recently that will limit the amount anyone enrolled in one of those plans can be charged each month for high-end medicine.

Yale created a process that linked financial and clinical data, giving physicians access to information they didn't have before.

The evolution of deadly, infectious bacteria must be countered with the healthcare system’s own transformation in prevention, consumer advocates and government experts argue.

Despite looming consolidation, health plans and insurers broadly need to attract more younger workers as Baby Boomers retire and markets evolve.

Patient satisfaction has become much more tied to costs as consumers pay more out-of-pocket for their healthcare expenses.

Prepayment, patient engagement and clear estimates are a success for St. Luke's Health System.

Oregon regulators are working with insurers to increase premiums, after a $127 million collective shortfall last year.

Some employers say a proposed rule could force them to cut the size of wellness programs’ financial incentives or penalties.

"The very advantage of telehealth, its ability to make care convenient, is also potentially its Achilles’ heel."

Ian Morrison tells insiders at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's 2015 Annual National Institute that U.S. systems have to reconcile costs to improve value.