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In "Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father -- And How We Can Fix It," author David Goldhill channels his incredulousness over how the healthcare system operates into an open challenge to society and the healthcare industry to examine why the healthcare system is the way it is and how it can be changed. He talked to Healthcare Finance News about his book.
In the first disclosure of individual health insurance premiums by the nation's largest state, California announced on Thursday a wide array of choices for the 5.3 million people expected to qualify to purchase coverage through its online marketplace established by the Affordable Care Act.
Price transparency is a touchy subject in healthcare, and experts are divided on how much value exposing prices has for consumers and how much impact it would have on the industry.
Generic drug maker, Actavis Inc., is acquiring specialty pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott in a stock transaction valued at $8.5 billion, creating the third largest U.S., announced the company on Monday. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year.
Health insurers in Oregon, one of the nation's most competitive markets, have proposed premium rates for 2014, as most prepare for what may be even more competition in the state insurance exchange.
Hospitals with the highest rates of cardiac arrests tend to have the poorest survival rates for those cases, while hospitals that do the best job of preventing cardiac arrest among their patients tend to be better at saving patients with cardiac arrest, according to new research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized medical loss ratio regulations for Medicare Advantage and Medicare prescription drug insurers, allowing some EHR and ICD-10 set-up costs to be counted as quality improvement and also a range of deductible community benefit expenditures.
A new index that gauges the financial and operational health of physician practices forecasts a downward trend in profitability for the year ahead.
Henry Ford Health System and Beaumont Health System announced Tuesday that after six months of due diligence the two organizations are not going forward with their merger that would have created a $6.4 billion organization.
Healthcare providers will be paid less for their for services under the federal Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) starting next month to stretch its funding because it is fast running out of money.