Reimbursement

At the top end, the highest median amount paid for the procedure is $61,231 in the Sacramento, California metropolitan area. On the other hand, the Birmingham, Alabama region books the lowest cost paid at $15,494.

Primary care incentives for ACOs may not be strong enough to accomplish the goals of improving patient experiences, population health and high costs.

With a progressive CEO and culture and a huge merger in the works, Aetna is promising to help reinvent healthcare. Yet it is still up against the long-term unknowns about what will constitute truly sustainable healthcare.

Even though most people now take some steps to communicate their end-of-life wishes, many may still receive more intensive care than they would have wished.

Far from being overtaken by a provider-led managed care movement, Molina is getting into the game.

The Portland-based company is making one of the most audacious forays into healthcare based on a vision of highly personalized, and tech-centered patient-centered healthcare.

Sallyann Johnson considers herself a pretty savvy healthcare consumer. When she fell and injured her hands and wrists, she didn't head for an expensive emergency room, choosing an urgent care clinic near her Milwaukee home instead.

In the Pacific Northwest, a new kind of health system, "with insurance built in," is trying to validate its primary care model and disrupt a seemingly competitive regional healthcare market.

Which hospital parents pick to deliver their baby can have serious cost consequences, according to a new study.

It's a situation that occurs all too often: Someone goes to the emergency room and doesn't learn until he gets a hefty bill that one of the doctors who treated him wasn't in his insurance network.