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If the $37 billion cash-and-stock deal is approved as a whole by regulators, Humana will bring Aetna's membership to more than 33 million.

Hospitals allegedly conspired to carve out marketing territories in the state to limit competition between the facilities and keep consumers from learning about competing providers.

According to the Department of Labor, healthcare businesses added 40,100 jobs compared to adding 48,000 in May. In total, healthcare employed 15.1 million people in the month.

The healthcare industry is now getting the scrutiny that financial institutions and other publicly traded companies have experienced, said Phil Bezanson, a partner at Bracewell & Giuliani in Houston.

Gynecologists ordered fewer preventive services for women who were insured by Medicaid than for those with private coverage, a recent study found.

For the 2014 benefit year, over $7.9 billion in reinsurance payments will be made to 437 issuers nationwide.

CMS is proposing that physicians be able to make case-by-case exceptions to the rule, classifying certain short stays as inpatient so that they would be paid under Medicare Part A.

Gynecologists ordered fewer preventive services for women who were insured by Medicaid than for those with private coverage, the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey found.

Aside from collections, the Peer60 report found 25 percent of providers plan to outsource contract management.

Landmark Healthcare Facilities this week said it has scored a $72 mortgage from GE Capital's Healthcare Financial Services business to purchase a new outpatient medical complex in Jacksonville, Florida.