Healthcare Finance Staff

More Americans than expected opted out of the individual insurance mandate, including some who didn't even have to.

The latest deal by diagnostics company Theranos suggests that the old school and new school can collaborate, and that the Blues might have a little something up their sleeves.

Instead of retiring, Marilyn Tavenner, the former nurse, hospital executive and Medicare administrator, is going to represent the economic and political interests of American health insurers.

Few days went by last year when New Hampshire nephrologist Ana Stankovic didn't receive a payment from a drug company.

Maryland same-sex couples who wanted to take advantage of a state law that requires insurers to cover pricey in vitro fertilization treatments used to face insurmountable obstacles. Not anymore.

A Michigan hematologist will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after defrauding Medicare and private insurers, and violating the first tenet of medicine, "Do no harm."

North Dakota's largest health insurer has made a quick turnaround after a year of underwriting losses and lost technology contracts.

James Colbert, MD, Harvard medical instructor and ACO Learning Network consultant, on the challenges and opportunities of designing high value networks and the data needed to do it.

Women are saving a lot of money as a result of a health law requirement that insurance cover most forms of prescription contraceptives with no additional out-of-pocket costs. But the amount of those savings and the speed with which those savings occurred surprised researchers.

Trying to bring affordable, painless lab tests to the masses, Theranos is breaking into a new market in collaboration with one of Pennsylvania's major insurers.