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Amid strong lobbying by business groups, support is growing to end the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate, a change that would see millions more Americans buying their health insurance through exchanges.

Increased admissions drove revenue gains for Tenet Healthcare Corporation and Community Health Systems in the first quarter of 2014 compared to 2013. Both for-profit hospital firms appear confident midway through Q2.

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.

Private health insurers have become so concentrated that there are only one or two major carriers competing in most states today. In spite of increasing demands on our financially stretched health sector, private insurers are not held to the same antitrust standards as other commercial businesses. That needs to change.