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Despite HHS Secretary nominee Sylvia Mathews Burwell getting asked some hard-line questions from lawmakers at a Senate hearing, she did receive overwhelming bipartisan support.

If the contract between Highmark and UPMC expires in six months, western Pennsylvania may become a case study for what some think is the future of American healthcare -- consolidated integrated delivery networks.

Amid the rise of high-deductible health plans and the growing prevalence and burden of chronic diseases, some argue that it may time to rethink the concept and regulation of preventive services.

Once a business on the fringes, the individual insurance market is getting more focus from large insurers like Humana and Health Net.

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.

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.