Anthony Brino

Earnings are down but in line with forecasting, and opportunities for future growth leave executives optimistic.

The newly available data on Medicare physician reimbursement may bolster would-be whistle-blowers, but health systems and medical practices can get ahead of the issue.

The growing ranks of adults helping their aging and ill parents, relatives and friends is a business opportunity that health insurer Highmark is not passing up.

Providers of Medicare Advantage and Part D plans: look out. Dozens of plans may soon be terminated.

New entrants in the healthcare market could snatch billions of dollars of revenue from traditional healthcare companies if the traditional companies do not move faster to provide services in the setting consumers want.

Insurers offering Medicare Advantage plans got a bit of a reprieve this week when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gave them a rate increase instead of the expected cut. CMS' 2015 rate announcement also addressed concerns over provider terminations and beneficiary cost sharing.

Catholic Health Initiatives' long-term transformation strategy has a bit of the expected -- IT investment -- and the unexpected -- the creation of an insurance business.

In an effort to boost its integration and retail strategy, Humana is bringing on a veteran investment banker who has worked on some of healthcare's largest merger and acquisition deals in recent history.

With Medicare's "two midnight rule" set to take effect later this year and audit appeals facing lengthy backlogs, the Recovery Audit Contractor program may be headed in some new directions.

In a recent report, MedPAC identified the common traits of the nation's poorly-performing hospitals. These are traits that have a big impact on hospital financial performance and should be understood by all hospitals -- even if they aren’t performing poorly currently.