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Medical identity theft is on the rise and hasn't shown signs of slowing down anytime soon, according to a new report released Thursday.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending September 13, 2013.

With labor costs in 2013 accounting for approximately 60 percent of hospital and health system operating budgets, many healthcare systems and hospitals have begun assessing high-labor cost areas with an eye to curbing those costs.

With health insurance exchanges opening Oct. 1, it will be essential that health plans pursue and keep up a high level of consumer awareness.

Given the uneven financial performance of the Pioneer ACOs, C-suite executives are no doubt wondering: What secret sauce allows some ACOs to succeed while others fall short of their financial goals?

Because models for accountable care organizations are so new, it's difficult to predict if they will develop along the lines evident today, or morph into something else.

The senior population isn't just exploding in the United States. It's a global phenomenon that is offering seniors housing developers in the U.S. business opportunities abroad.

An effective workplace safety program is imperative in healthcare settings to ensure the well-being of workers and hold down costs related to worker injury.

Cancer care delivery is a system in crisis, with escalating costs, an increasingly aging population and complex treatments for a difficult disease stretching healthcare resources, according to a new Institute of Medicine report.

Changes to care delivery and payment models need to happen in order to improve a cancer care delivery system that is in crisis, found a new Institute of Medicine report.