Anthony Brino

The emergence of digital and retail health is a clarion call for hospitals and medical practices to innovate and improve the patient experience. However, providers could lose patients to retail companies if the seeds sown by the likes of CVS, Walgreens and Walmart take root.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case brought by Idaho providers over an issue that has split many lower courts: whether Medicaid providers have a Constitutional right to sue states to enforce Medicaid funding regulations.

Are hospitals exploiting the 340B drug discount program? Critics of the federal government's program have some new evidence in the debate over healthcare subsidies.

Rural health providers may feel burdened by a confluence of policy and financing trends. But one opportunity, depending on the state, can help with sustainability.

With 25 million Americans set to be insured through exchange plans over the next decade, some health systems are finding a competitive advantage in branding their own health networks, improving on the concept that entered the market with the name "narrow networks."

In Massachusetts, the expansion of Partners HealthCare is offering a fractious case study of integration and health reform and begs the question: how big is too big?

On the face of it, the industry is making great strides toward adopting value-oriented payment models, but the question of whether or not the industry is also reducing costs and improving care quality remains unanswered.

The ranks of Medicaid keep growing, and at record levels. But while that's good news for hospital systems' uncompensated care budgets, there are still challenges.

Rather than waiting for innovation, one health system is looking to nurture its own clinical and technology advances, tapping into Amazon alums and a billionaire surgeon with a big, disruptive vision.

For those that are struggling -- and even those that aren't -- a new exit strategy idea is being floated: launching a Medicare Advantage plan.