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Americans are paying higher prices for cancer drugs because more patients are being treated by oncologists whose practices have been bought by hospitals, which may charge double or more for the same treatments, according to a new report.

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act is likely to lead to increased profitability for hospital emergency departments.

After an uproar from consumers facing the highest premiums in the nation, Colorado's insurance commissioner is offering to revamp the geographic rating system and to implement it lickity-split.

Private health insurers have become so concentrated that there are only one or two major carriers competing in most states today. In spite of increasing demands on our financially stretched health sector, private insurers are not held to the same antitrust standards as other commercial businesses. That needs to change.

Despite a booming state economy, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Dakota is booking huge losses, with more potentially to come from a botched contract, leaving the board looking for fresh leadership to bring a turnaround.

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is hoping a cost-analysis system from their Italian transplant hospital will become the future of cost measurement here in the United States.

Amid the many mergers and acquisitions sweeping through healthcare, some raising the ire of anti-trust regulators, four health systems in greater Philadelphia are taking a different tack in a bid to integrate care and lure new insurance contracts.

With more employers adopting high deductible plans for their workers, the market is opening up for supplemental benefits in some of healthcare's most expensive areas.

Although they're not expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, Texas, Florida and other states are expanding managed care, bringing insurers opportunities as well as challenges, including competition from provider-based health plans.

More than 8 million Americans selected health plans in public exchanges during the Affordable Care Act's first enrollment period. But how many of them were previously uninsured? And does it matter?