Healthcare Finance Staff

The Marketplace Navigator grants only apply to groups in the 34 states that run federal exchanges.

While hospital merger and acquisition deals in the second quarter of 2015 slid when it came to volume, the total dollar amount of the deals jumped on a few major takeovers, according to new research by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Colorado's uninsured rate has plummeted from a recent high of 15.8 percent four years ago to 6.7 percent this year, but the success of the Affordable Care Act in Colorado is almost entirely the result of Medicaid expansion, according to a much anticipated survey from the Colorado Health Institute.

While many accountable care organizations in Medicare's Shared Savings Program generated enough savings in 2014 to merit financial incentives, more than two-thirds fell below the payment threshold, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Tuesday.

Nine ACOs that partner with CHS generated $27 million in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

Two Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations, Montefiore Health and the Banner Health Network, on Tuesday touted their success in generating savings for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ACO model. Though other organizations in the group found little reason to celebrate.

Amputees against proposed changes to Medicare coverage that would result in less expensive, but inferior, prosthetics being given to patients gathered in Baltimore Wednesday to ask officials to strike down the proposal.

A new report published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that just over half of MSSP ACOs shared plans on how they'll allocate savings.

More than 2 million people with coverage on the health insurance exchanges may be missing out on subsidies that could lower their deductibles, copayments and maximum out-of-pocket spending limits, according to a new analysis by Avalere Health.

MeriTalk report claims 11 percent of people who receive government healthcare benefits are not actually eligible.