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National health spending in 2012 increased at a 3.7 percent rate to $2.8 trillion, the fourth consecutive year of slow growth, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said in an analysis.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is proposing a number of new tweaks and more stringent requirements for Medicare Part D, hoping to save more than $1 billion over five years.

While many states are still trying to establish the core services of their health insurance marketplace, some exchanges are already setting a blueprint for business opportunities beyond a platform that enables shopping for and purchasing health coverage.

Recent court decisions in Michigan are making the issue of public employee benefits restructuring even more murky for states and local governments, and potentially adding more reasons for the Supreme Court to weigh in.

Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, there’s been an industry focus on accountable care organizations. This movement towards ACOs has major market implications for providers that are considering joining the Medicare Shared Savings Program for the January 2015 start date.

An analysis of new Medicare data provides a look at how the nation's hospitals are doing with all-cause, unplanned readmissions.

Hospitals and health systems will face ever more pressure in 2014 to establish the core skills needed to thrive in a rapidly changing healthcare market.

More than 10,000 Colorado state employees have participated in wellness activities in a health incentive program since July, with one half of them having completed a health risk assessment.

Nearly four years after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law promising the biggest expansion of health care coverage in half a century, the public remains deeply split over it.

The Department of Health and Human Services is getting ready to enforce the Affordable Care Act's attempts to reduce administrative costs, with proposed regulations of health plans.