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Good managers don't live in boxes. And at Utah's Intermountain Healthcare, it's pretty much mandated that they break out of them, especially when it comes to improving revenue cycle management.

Federal penalties for high rates of patient readmissions are compelling hospitals to dig into the causes of the re-hospitalizations, which frequently have more to do with socioeconomic factors than the healthcare provided.

Outpatient payments for cancer hospitals were 37 percent higher than teaching hospitals for the same range of services, report finds.

The state of California is working to create an "ideal" long-term care delivery system. Here are three short-term actions that the state can take now to lay meaningful cornerstones for a more comprehensive overhaul.

The deal comes five years after Humana spent $790 million to buy Concentra, a network of 300 urgent care and physical centers and 245 work-site clinics in 38 states.

The consumer demand for price transparency is growing as patients pay more out-of-pocket expenses as deductibles rise.

Banner finished 2014 with $8.8 billion in total assets.

Transportation problems, physician shortages and hospital closures are central challenges to providing accessible high-quality healthcare in rural areas. But the good news is many initiatives to study rural areas' access issues are underway.

Association finds 48 rural hospitals have closed since 2010, the majority in Southern states, and 283 others are in trouble.

With the addition of SSM, the network will now include 45 hospitals, 555 clinics and about 5,700 other participating healthcare providers.