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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:50 pm | July 17, 2015
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.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 09:59 am | July 17, 2015
Which hospital parents pick to deliver their baby can have serious cost consequences, according to a new study.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 09:52 am | July 17, 2015
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.
By Susan Morse | 04:07 pm | July 16, 2015
One fear is there will be added pressure to increase direct federal subsidies for additional exchange customers, possibly creating a new kind of entitlement program.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:27 am | July 16, 2015
More Americans than expected opted out of the individual insurance mandate, including some who didn't even have to.
By Anthony Brino | 09:05 am | July 16, 2015
Ambitious diagnostics company will bring its low-cost blood testing to Medicaid patients.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 04:56 pm | July 15, 2015
The latest deal by diagnostics company Theranos suggests that the old school and new school can collaborate, and that the Blues might have a little something up their sleeves.
By Susan Morse | 04:42 pm | July 15, 2015
A number of hospitals in North Carolina are suing the federal government over more than $2 million in disproportionate share payments they say they are owed due to changes to the Affordable Care Act.
By Anthony Brino | 03:29 pm | July 15, 2015
Marilyn Tavenner, the former nurse, hospital executive and Medicare administrator, will succeed Karen Ignagni as the head of America's Health Insurance Plans, effective Aug. 24, the organization announced Wednesday.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 03:11 pm | July 15, 2015
Instead of retiring, Marilyn Tavenner, the former nurse, hospital executive and Medicare administrator, is going to represent the economic and political interests of American health insurers.