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With and without government, some of healthcare's largest businesses, and those who pay for it, are mapping their own path to a critical mass of value-based payments.

State will pay for its share of the expansion costs beginning in 2017 with hospital fees and a cigarette tax.

Politician plans to block the merger on the grounds that it would make the state's largest health system too big to function fairly.

Early adoption helps Massachusetts provider stay ahead as government mandates broader departure from fee-for-service.

While going back decades the sector has seen its slice of GDP narrow, more recent numbers suggest the trend may be reversing.

The hospital owner replaced recently sold grocery chain Safeway for a spot on the index.

One of the country's most promising new insurers could not be saved by state regulators. For some local advocates and insurance veterans, it is an opportunity lost to health reform policies gone awry.

More than a dozen Blues are trying to attract the next generation of members and help keep current customers as they age. To do that, they're invoking old school insurance ideas for the modern world.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants have 50 percent of Medicare reimbursements tied to quality and value by 2018, even if that includes fee-for-service.

One state's home-grown approach to health reform has produced a few discrepancies in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, including one big dispute between insurers over risk-sharing.