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Republican asked the state Legislature to continue the private option for Medicaid through the end of 2016 to keep insurance coverage for more than 200,000 low-income residents.

As hundreds of hospitals face steep fines, one doctor explains how class, poverty and neighborhood demographics affect the trend.

Notwithstanding resistance in California and some long-term uncertainty, the nation's largest insurer is pretty stoked about 2015, public exchanges and Medicaid.

In a crowded market dominated by the Blues, a hospital-owned health plan is trying grow in tandem with Medicare and Medicaid enrollment, seeing potential in suburban Baby Boomers.

Let us know what you think about these two crucial hospital issues, and help us come up with questions for the experts.

Providence Health in the northwest and Novant Health in the southeast are pushing population health, high technology and other options that are creating value and improving care.

At a time when prevention is being hailed as a key to health reform, indeed required as an essential health benefit, new evidence is questioning assumptions about the benefits and costs.

Program costs more than $140 billion, leaders say, but temporary 'doc fix' keeps physicians from serious reimbursement cuts.

Why the costs for an increasingly common surgery should vary so much across and within regions is the key question Blue Cross companies are trying to answer, as new research find that pricing swings are still the norm.

While the sector is struggling, one expert offers these financial tips for enhancing investment assets to shore up balance sheets at hospitals and health systems.