Anthony Brino

Cancer treatment costs are among the highest in the healthcare industry. Insurer UnitedHealthcare created a pilot in an attempt to lower costs that has yielded some promising, though somewhat mixed results.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies are making progress in its transition from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement models.

Medicare regulators are updating hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery center payments for next year, and also outlining a potential remedy to private Medicare overpayments.

The growth of total U.S. medical costs is slowing down, but one segment is expanding fast: prescription drug costs.

A patient-centered medical home program with a physician-owned, multispecialty group has been so promising that Aetna is extending the arrangement.

After more than a year of dispute over continuing a contract, insurer and new health system owner Highmark and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have reached a comprehensive transition agreement.

Ambulatory surgery centers have new evidence to back up arguments for its relative cost-effectiveness.

Two greater Chicago health systems are joining forces to create what could become Illinois' third largest health network. But don't call it a merger.

MedPAC is out with its 15th annual mid-year report, offering advice for Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services to improve and sustain the senior's health program as it enrolls millions of retiring baby boomers. Here's what hospitals need to know about the commission's latest thinking.

"Clinical integration" and "organizing for value" are two key themes at the HFMA 2014 ANI conference. Both are crucial in preparation for the transition from a fee-for-service reimbursement system. Here's an example of how one health system is preparing, by teaming with a health plan on a new care management venture.