Accounting & Financial Management

Salinas, California topped spending for all three procedures: $60,375 for a coronary stent placement; $57,990 for a total hip replacement; and $25,924 for a laparoscopic appendectomy.

Membership in the company's health plan grew by 510,000 in the year to nearly 9.6 million.

Slow response to "balance billing" problem stinging for consumers blindsided by out-of-network charges.

The Minnesota-based insurer expects to partner with up to 250 new ACOs this year.

All healthcare subsectors -- services, IT, medical devices and life sciences -- are benefiting from open equity and demand for products and services.

Frugal spending and an academic approach to planning helps Hill Country Memorial earn high honors.

Walgreens said it is cutting ties with two accountable care organizations, though the nation's largest pharmacy chain has also launched a new partnership on the West Coast to help manage ACO patients.

The expansion of insurance coverage to some 10 million individuals in 2014 has implications for the growth rate in national health expenditures and on health workforce requirements. While there is broad agreement that spending and utilization will be pushed upward, there is much debate about the amounts.

Brad Sinclair has been named chief financial officer for the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s University Hospitals and Health System in Jackson, Mississippi.

This week the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its annual solicitation of recommendations for new or modified safe harbor provisions under the federal anti-kickback statute, as well as potential topics for new OIG Special Fraud Alerts.