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A venture by Independence Blue Cross and a company ranking well in Warren Buffett's portfolio is getting underway, in an ambitious attempt to optimize the benefits of primary care.

Tenet Healthcare is seeing its situation improve, with growth in key metrics, more favorable payer contracts and a burgeoning services business unit.

As integrated healthcare becomes a central goal, the time may be ripe for mergers and acquisitions to get more interesting.

One of the largest Medicaid managed care expansions has been given the green light for what will be a test of reducing public-payer spending.

As provider power grows and integrated healthcare becomes a central goal, the time may become ripe for more payer takeovers of a kind not seen before.

Analysts who fear health spending is accelerating got plenty of evidence in Wall Street's second-quarter results to support their thesis. But so did folks who hope spending is still under control.

Oversight contracts between nurse practitioners and physicians are not a major reason NPs are pushing for practice independence, but they are increasingly adding to NP frustrations.

Community Health Systems' earnings are increasing after its latest (though not last) acquisition, sending its stock trading to an all-time high.

Premiums for exchange plans in California are looking pretty affordable. Is this because insurers are fearful of a rate review process that might be approved by voters in the fall, or a large, diverse market spreading out risk?

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending August 1, 2014.