Healthcare Finance Staff

Adding to the list of healthcare price comparison tools is a consumer website with one of the largest databases yet, although it is perhaps not enough to end the Dark Ages of healthcare transparency.

One of the nation's smaller but more influential integrated health systems has a new chief executive, in time for both fine-tuning and new ventures.

This year's open enrollment may be mostly over. But for 2016 and beyond, insurers should prepare for evolving regulations on everything from premium increases to drug formularies.

Voters, and the industry, may end up liking parts of both Republican and Democratic ideas. They might ask a reasonable question: Why can't we take the best from both sides?

In the farming town of Exeter, deep in California's Central Valley, Anne Roberson walks a quarter mile each day to her mailbox. Her walk and housekeeping chores are the 68-year-old's only exercise, and her weight has remained stubbornly over 200 pounds for some time.

When Pavel Poliakov's small clothing shop in a picturesque college town closed last year, he felt lucky to be able to sign up for Medicaid just as Colorado expanded the program under the new healthcare law.

The nation's largest nonprofit health system is quietly getting into the insurance game under the auspices of population health.

Medicare Advantage reimbursement and regulatory changes are coming, along with new probes into risk adjustment practices that could lead to settlements and clawbacks.

The federal government is extending the exchange sign-up deadline, due to concerns about tax season confusion and subsidy mistakes for some 800,000 Americans.

While the new health insurance market is about as profitable as the pre-reform era for some large insurers, that is not the case for those like Assurant.