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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) has launched a value-based hospital reimbursement agreement that includes shared savings with Northern Michigan's Munson Healthcare.

During the first eight months of this year, fewer than 18 percent of Medicare patients ended up back in the hospital within a month of discharge, the lowest rate in years, the federal government reported Friday.

If mHealth entrepreneurs and investors want to take the burgeoning industry to the next level, they're going to have to change their focus, said experts kicking off the 2013 mHealth Summit.

As healthcare enters its patient-centered, payment-bundled era, hospitals and physicians are looking for a shake-up in revenue cycle management.

Northern Michigan's Munson Healthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan are venturing into the developing world of new payment models by launching a value-based hospital reimbursement agreement.

America's medical cost inflation appears on track to fall even below 2013's trends, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, although consumers are still bearing large cost burdens and other trends threaten the slowdown.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending December 6, 2013.

In one of the strangest Medicaid fraud cases in recent history, the Justice Department is charging several Russian diplomats and their families with illegally accessing Medicaid-covered prenatal and pediatric care in New York City.

In November, national employment rose by 203,000 with the healthcare sector among those with the strongest gains.

As hospitals continue to get squeezed by new Medicare penalties and shrinking reimbursements from private insurers, many are looking for ways to make up for that missing revenue, including picking up the insurance tab for poor patients as a means of collecting on bad debt.