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Healthcare services giant says softness in Canadian market was a drag on income.

Lessing comes to the hospital from Louisiana where he most recently served as the CFO of the 223-bed St. Tammany Parish Hospital.

When Ken Fasola was working at Humana and UnitedHealth Group in the 1990s and 2000s, the industry saw individual insurance products as "the bottom end of the food chain."

One unfilled healthcare job can cost a healthcare facility an average of $7,700.

Insurers have to improve consumer education about drug formularies in exchanges, at the least, and some may even have to change their practices to meet new health reform standards.

The fundamental transformation is to refocus provision of care from "reactive" to "proactive."

Humana and DaVita are joining forces to try out a new way to serve high risk, special needs patients with a primary care-led model.

Indiana is pushing the bounds of Medicaid with the first-ever consumer-driven health plan for low-income populations. It's opening up new possibilities for other right-leaning states, but testing federal limits.

Easy tests often allow patients to take them at home.

Health Care Transformation Task Force says 75 percent of the members will convert by 2020 as Medicare plans to tie 50 percent of payments to quality by 2018.