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While many states are still trying to establish the core services of their health insurance marketplace, some exchanges are already setting a blueprint for business opportunities beyond a platform that enables shopping for and purchasing health coverage.

Recent court decisions in Michigan are making the issue of public employee benefits restructuring even more murky for states and local governments, and potentially adding more reasons for the Supreme Court to weigh in.

An analysis of new Medicare data provides a look at how the nation's hospitals are doing with all-cause, unplanned readmissions.

Hospitals and health systems will face ever more pressure in 2014 to establish the core skills needed to thrive in a rapidly changing healthcare market.

More than 10,000 Colorado state employees have participated in wellness activities in a health incentive program since July, with one half of them having completed a health risk assessment.

Nearly four years after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law promising the biggest expansion of health care coverage in half a century, the public remains deeply split over it.

Merger and acquisition activity continued at a robust pace in the closing months of 2013, and by all accounts, the industry will see more of the same in 2014.

Despite the noise around the higher cost of some health plans on the exchanges, rate increases generally have more to do with the trend of steadily higher medical costs than with provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

The Department of Health and Human Services is getting ready to enforce the Affordable Care Act's attempts to reduce administrative costs, with proposed regulations of health plans.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending January 03, 2014.