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No deadline is ever really certain. The federal government is giving health insurers more time to submit data for the risk-sharing programs that many market reforms are depending on.

The world of Medicare post-acute care is set to change, as a series of reforms ultimately rewrite payments in a sector that accounts for more than 20 percent of all Medicare spending. 

In a way that is deeply changing federal contracting, growth opportunities from the government have increasingly come not from war but from healing.

While some evidence suggests medical cost ratio mandates are helping make healthcare more affordable, there are still some long-term doubts. 

Amid an intense debate about the cost and value of drugs, a big payer and a big pharma company are promising to comb through their collective evidence and deliver new knowledge that may improve patient outcomes.

Here's a look at some recent headlines in the world of healthcare finance.

Despite the many Medicare reform initiatives the ACA is sweeping in, Republican leaders in Congress say there are just as many areas of Medicare that are broken, chaotic and in need of change.

A population healthcare model in Mississippi that use telehealth technology to help curb the worst of diabetes has achieved early success and caught the attention of the state government.

The 2015 open enrollment is off to a pretty good start and the new market is working, federal officials insist, but for consumers and insurers, there is still a tough slough, albeit of a different sort.

CMS appears to recognize the significant challenges that many ACOs have faced in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, and has proposed a number of changes to the financial performance tracks for ACOs participating in the program.