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Strategic growth through consolidation, optimizing care by finding ways to become more efficient providers make experts' list of healthcare issues to watch in 2015.

Former Mercy Hospital exec charged with shoring up finances for struggling hospital.

Only four groups out of 48 that were studied in the Community-based Care Transition Program significantly cut readmissions compared with those of a control group.

If 2014 was a year of managing member populations who need a blockbuster treatment for hepatitis C, 2015 is turning out to be one of deals for everyone to access that drug.

Is the nascent multi-state plan program a threat to health insurance competition, or possibly a surreptitious route to a public option? The Blues and co-ops will be how the market finds out.

Hundreds of healthcare workers at California's Kaiser Permanente facilities walked off the job this week, striking over a lack of staffing by the hospital operator that they say is affecting care for mentally ill patients.

Overall, healthcare leaders are optimistic about the future and are relying on a combination of mergers and acquisitions and organic growth to expand.

Reining in the costs for healthcare providers is more complicated than ever.

After a massive data breach at the Garden State's largest health insurer, carriers and others now have to comply with data protection standards that exceed HIPAA. 

Merger creates one of the largest skilled pediatric home health companies in the country.