Healthcare Finance Staff

As more providers adpot robotic surgery technology, more information on comparative effectiveness is raising questions about costs and benefits.

The new hepatitis C treatment Sovaldi has driven debate over drug costs for close to a year, but it's also been a case study in access and coverage in public payer programs.

In one large state, it is up to individual hospitals and health systems to find creative ways to bend the cost curve and best meet local needs.

In a new market for western Pennsylvania healthcare lives, Highmark and UPMC are finding old disputes lurking, adding to consumer confusion amid a new product launch and open enrollment.

Insurers with Medicaid managed care plans can breathe one big sigh of relief, but there are still other things with the insurance fee in Medicaid to worry about.

The industry that prides itself on being at the cutting edge of biomedical research is at the back end when it comes to adopting mobile technology for healthcare professionals and patients.

Insurers that manage long-term care and supports for individuals with disabilities in their home or community will have to assure that beneficiaries can interact with their community and make more of their own life choices.

After years of research, design, pilot programs and technology investment, the movement for quality improvement and pay-for-performance is facing skepticism from outside and within.

Hewlett-Packard revealed on Monday that it intends to break itself into two distinct entities and, in so doing, shared a little about how it will all work.

In Massachusetts, the expansion of the state's largest health system is offering a fractious case study of clinical integration and payment reform.