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Keeping a hospital's revenue cycle healthy while transitioning to outcome-based quality payments requires both a "hard" and "soft" approach.

The Affordable Care Act has created some new realities for hospitals when it comes to billing and collecting from patients.

With so many pressures to contend with, physician practices are scrutinizing their performance perhaps more than ever.

In years past, many hospitals didn't think twice about buying new property as an investment in the future, confident that they would eventually see a return on their investment.

The financing of healthcare is moving away from volume and toward value.

In the past year, several large insurers have hired executives from outside the industry, seeking to bring in new skills and perspectives to help improve the experience for customers increasingly demanding more price transparency and convenience.

Although they're not expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, Texas, Florida and other states are expanding managed care.

A group of chiropractors went to war with the Blues and it seems they've won, successfully using a novel legal theory that now has lawyers setting their sights on other large insurers.

This summer, insurers who want to sell plans in public exchanges for 2015 will be going through several rounds of application reviews with federal regulators before the Sept. 4 final submission deadline.

Another round of successful lobbying to avoid Medicare Advantage rate cuts has netted a small increase of 0.4 percent to the average plan, and insurers are looking at the programs continuing to grow.