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Healthcare costs for state and local governments are growing faster than the national average, threatening to crowd out other services and sending public officials looking for solutions.
Like many businesses faced with a transforming industry, hospital operators are working on ways to evolve into new models while bringing in revenue.
These are the 10 regions of the country with the highest premiums for people buying insurance on the health law's new marketplaces.
Bundled payment programs have been creating buzz across the healthcare spectrum, but one area where they are relatively unproven is in post-acute settings.
The way physicians are compensated now -- through a variety of methods -- may not align with the way incentives are structured in pay-for-value models.
Shifting doctors to pay-for-value models will not be easy because their compensation is based on different methods that may not encourage incentive rewards.
When the Harvard Business Review publishes an essay called "The Cure for the Common Corporate Wellness Program," you know the backlash is real.
Accountable care organizations saved more than $380 million after their first year, but only 29 were able to share in the savings.
A study of autoworker claims found that hospitals with the highest prices tended to have the strongest reputations and tight holds on their local markets yet showed little evidence of providing better quality care.
Colorado's new health co-op is claiming an early success on the road to its long-term enrollment goals and is the first exchange plan to report membership data.