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Much of the marketing to potential enrollees of health insurance exchanges has been conducted by health insurers and other organizations advancing the marketplaces, but health systems have a role to play in signing up individuals that could also benefit their bottom line.

Many health systems lag on strategies to take advantage of new open enrollment on health insurance exchanges that could help offset declining revenues from fewer admissions and more care moving outside of the hospital.

A group of physicians hoping to offer new imaging and colonoscopy services in Virginia are facing an uphill battle trying to overturn the commonwealth's "certificate of need" law.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending September 20, 2013.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule on Medicaid payments to disproportionate share hospitals last week, cutting approximately $1.1 billion from the program over the next two fiscal years.

For healthcare employers, the recent modest growth in insurance premiums in employer-sponsored group plans has more impactful consequences for the their bottom line than it does for non-healthcare employers.

One area in which Congress has acted in a bipartisan manner is in crafting a permanent solution to the “doc fix,” the sustainable growth rate formula.

With healthcare reform generating so many unknowns, many hospital administrators are looking for ways to build up cash reserves as a defense against worst-case reimbursement scenarios.

Health insurers have reached out to consumers in a blitz of in-person, online and networked information and events so those who need coverage or want to change their current individual coverage will know how to connect with and be comfortable with the health insurance exchanges.

Large and small providers and payers enlist a variety of strategies to develop accountable care organizations and other value-based models.