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By Anthony Brino | 11:02 am | December 31, 2014
Walgreens said it is cutting ties with two accountable care organizations, though the nation's largest pharmacy chain has also launched a new partnership on the West Coast to help manage ACO patients.
By Charles Roehrig, PhD | 10:54 am | December 31, 2014
The expansion of insurance coverage to some 10 million individuals in 2014 has implications for the growth rate in national health expenditures and on health workforce requirements. While there is broad agreement that spending and utilization will be pushed upward, there is much debate about the amounts.
By Henry Powderly | 06:16 am | December 29, 2014
As 2014 winds down, we've taken a look back at some of the biggest stories in healthcare finance in the past year. See what you may have missed.
By Christopher Hayden | 08:02 am | December 26, 2014
St. Elizabeth Healthcare has named Lori Ritchey-Baldwin chief financial officer after serving as vice president of finance for the past two years
By Anthony Brino | 10:22 am | December 23, 2014
Between online marketplaces for Social Security numbers and data hijackings at Sony and critical access hospitals, catching and preventing fraud has never been more important or dependent on technology.
By Anthony Brino | 10:04 am | December 22, 2014
Last week's initial public offering for biotech company Juno Therapeutics could pay dividends for several Seattle-based healthcare providers as the company brings its cancer treatments to market.
By David Weldon | 10:03 am | December 22, 2014
Most healthcare organizations offer benefit programs aimed at keeping workers in both good physical and mental health. But less common are healthcare employers that can prove those same programs actually save the organization money.
By Henry Powderly | 03:15 pm | December 16, 2014
More than $665 million will be distributed to states around the country to test new service and payment models, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday.
By Anthony Brino | 08:40 am | December 16, 2014
UnitedHealthcare and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center are piloting an episode of care, or bundled, payment model for patients being treated with head and neck cancers, a collaboration they describe as among the first to use bundled payments in a large, comprehensive oncology center.
By Henry Powderly | 09:40 am | December 12, 2014
More than 50 accountable care organizations across the United States took in millions in incentive payments in 2014 after exceeding savings benchmarks set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.