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Continuing a trend in the retail economy, Target is ending health insurance options for part-time employees and sending them to health insurance exchanges, following the likes of Home Depot and Walgreens.

Health savings accounts are growing more than ever, and possibly eating into health reimbursement accounts for the first time since researchers have been tracking the plans.

Most employees who recently started buying their insurance through a private exchange report a fair amount of satisfaction with their choices, although whether that ends up saving employers and employees money still isn't clear.

As they try to get a better handle on population health management and member engagement, payers are increasingly looking to consumer-facing technologies for help, according to the latest report from Chilmark Research.

Hospitals and managed care organizations in Rhode Island are set to take reimbursement cuts under the governor's proposed budget -- an untenable position, some say, as Medicaid expansion brings them more patients.

Small and medium sized medical groups are confronted with questions of survival on an ever-increasing basis.

Connecticut's health insurance exchange is the first to meet its enrollment projections, but officials might be hoping to attract younger Nutmeggers before the 2014 open enrollment period ends.

The first insurer to post last year's financial results, UnitedHealth Group saw revenues grow 11 percent but margins slip -- a sign of industry pressures ramping up in the new era of health reform.

Healthcare Finance News talked to Kevin Brennan, Geisinger's executive vice president and CFO, about the advantages the health system has seen by adopting the bundled payment model.

Empowered consumers, rapid innovation and increasing competition are among PwC's top health industry issues for 2014.