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The Obama Administration wants to make it as easy as possible for the 8 million Americans who bought insurance via an exchange last year to keep their plans. To that end, the auto-enrollment policy Health and Human Services unwrapped aims to reduce complexity for insurers, but it also brings new issues.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending June 27, 2014.

Two large players in a small market are going to spend the next three years trying to collaborate with emerging incentives, as shared risk becomes the new normal.

The individual insurance market is now too big to ignore, drawing new crowds on and off state exchanges.

Purchased services can drain a lot of money and time from an organization because it is so diverse, but a value analysis approach can clean up the disorder.

While the United States pays the most for healthcare among all other developed nations, it also ranks last when it comes to the quality of care received compared to 10 other western, industrialized nations.

Ambulatory surgery centers have new evidence to back up arguments for its relative cost-effectiveness.

As health plans start serving newly-insured populations and try to improve outcomes for long-time patients, all while taking on more financial risk, the case for aggressively targeting diabetes and obesity has never been greater.

The ambulatory surgery center movement has some evidence to back up arguments for its relative cost-effectiveness, although variation can still be vexing for health plans and patients.

Health costs will accelerate next year, but changes in how people buy care will help keep them from attaining the speed of several years ago, PricewaterhouseCoopers says in a new report.