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Pent-up demand for health insurance and curiosity about what the exchanges have to offer proved too much for the federal and many state systems to handle upon opening of the health insurance marketplaces.
Improving care and lowering costs for beneficiaries eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid is the holy grail of the government and health plans alike.
Medicare Advantage plans are beginning to contribute to the moderating trend of the growth in Medicare per capita spending, which is at overall historic lows as a result of fewer hospital readmissions and shift to generic prescription medications.
The state of Washington finds itself in the middle of a trend that hardly anyone there ever saw coming: a wave of mergers and alliances between Catholic hospital chains and secular, taxpayer-supported community hospitals.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending October 18, 2013.
A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine examined factors what factors may or may not affect hospital CEO compensation.
With hospital margins growing tighter and bad debt increasing, improving revenue cycle becomes more important than ever. Here are some tips to do that.
Many small businesses find the services offered by Affordable Care Act's SHOP exchanges attractive, but they're also interested in self-funding, a potential threat to the critical mass needed for HIXs to thrive.
The first insurer to report third quarter financials, UnitedHealth Group posted net quarterly earnings of $1.57 billion, a 1 percent year-over-year increase, with its Optum business contributing nearly 25 percent of profits.
If you're trying to beef up the value of a medical practice in advance of selling it, don't bother upgrading your electronic health record system.