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Building on the success of its patient-centered medical home (PCMH) program with primary care physicians, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City announced it has inked a deal with St. Luke's Health System, the first under its new hospital-focused Collaborative Value Program.

CGI Federal Inc. has released a new version of the CONNECT Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) Exchange gateway, seeking to make it easier for organizations to deploy, use and maintain the open-source technology and support more widespread adoption.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder highlighted Wednesday the Obama Administration's efforts to prevent Medicare fraud, through the Affordable Care Act and the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT).

Chemotherapy treatments for privately insured patients delivered in an outpatient hospital setting cost 24 percent more than when the treatments are provided in a doctor's office, according to a new study by Avelere Health.

Wisconsin actually started, then stopped, building a health insurance exchange (HIX). But as the GOP presidential candidates gear up for Tuesday's primary -- and the Supreme Court mulls its decision on the the Affordable Care  Act (ACA) -- the health reform law and its insurance exchanges aren't the only things with a questionable future in the Badger State.

A new study by Avelere Health shows that chemotherapy treatments for privately insured patients delivered in an outpatient hospital setting cost 24 percent more than when the treatments are provided in a doctor's office.

IDC Health Insights has released a new report on best practices for establishing enterprise or community health information exchanges (HIEs).

According to research presented last week at the American College of Cardiology's 61st Annual Scientific Session, the likelihood of heart failure patient readmission can be drastically lowered when using a simple checklist before patients leave the hospital.

If the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate, the justices will then decide whether or not the remainder of the health reform law is so intertwined with the insurance requirement that it too must be overturned as unconstitutional.

We asked our social media followers whether they feel a tax on the people would be the best possible penalty. Is it unconstitutional? Is it fair? Are there other sanctions that seem more realistic? Here's a Twitter recap of their responses.