Healthcare Finance Staff

While a significant overhaul of Medicaid is long overdue, the recent proposals fail to address one of the program's fundamental problems: the trifurcated nature of the program struggles to serve three very different needs.

Talk about sticker shock: Some U.S. hospitals charge patients more than 10 times the rates paid by Medicare.

With near-universal health insurance and an impetus to make healthcare affordable, health systems starting their own insurance plans believe this time is different.

Some promising breakthrough medicines on the market and horizon are going to come with a steep price tag that public payers especially will have to meet head on.

If Elizabeth Holmes has her way, a reinvented blood test will liberate Americans paying for lab tests and help cultivate a new kind of preventative healthcare.

Transparency isn't here yet and even then it will only be part of the answer.

Leaders of two warring healthcare healthcare institutions argue that a near-duopoly will benefit consumers and patients. The trouble is that a 60-year-old piece of the tax code leaves many without real choice.

The states that set up their own insurance marketplaces have nothing to lose in King v. Burwell, the big Supreme Court case that will be decided by the end of June. But that doesn't mean those states are breathing easy.

At the annual assembly of America's health insurance leaders, the need for better consumer experiences and more affordability goes without saying. The trouble is transcending the inertia of the old ways.

Where do health insurers fit into the convergence in healthcare, if anywhere? All problems are also opportunities, even if it might be in disguise.