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J.D. Power's health insurance satisfaction survey finds that customers who bought private insurance plans on ACA exchanges expressed slightly higher average satisfaction than people in employer-sponsored plans: 696 to 679 on a 1000-point scale.

The Republicans should offer an unconditional subsidy extension if the Supreme Court strikes them down.

Like other recent proposals for inpatient hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, payment would be tied to new standards for quality reporting.

Blue Shield of California is embroiled in a fight with a former executive over $100,000 spent on Hollywood nightclubs and other dubious items.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies are setting up their own insurance exchange for retirees switching to individual Medicare plans, a bid to secure lifetime customers from in a new population of seniors.

"The expense of the surgical robot will pale in comparison to the coming tsunami of overpriced drugs."

Thousands of families with a disabled or deceased parent may have received a lower subsidy than they deserved to buy health coverage through the federal insurance marketplace as a result of a calculation error by the federal government.

Seven hundred million people worldwide have obtained access to financial services for the first time over the past three years, according to a Gates Foundation funded institute.

Add Tennessee and Kansas to the list of states that have been warned by the Obama administration that failing to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act could jeopardize special funding to pay hospitals and doctors for treating the poor.

It's a network war with Midwest manners, but Nebraska's largest insurer and health system still have miles to go before a resolution. The impasse may be hurting one organization more than the other.