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A national for-profit giant and Michigan's largest health insurer are coming to a resolution over the long-standing, fractious trade issues of excluding and favoring.

A mix of old and new school insurers are the best health plans in the eyes of the 59,000 physicians and providers using the digital billing and record-keeping services of athenahealth.

Operating income across Pennsylvania's 35 for-profit and 135 nonprofit hospitals decreased about 5 percent in fiscal 2014 from $1.8 billion to $1.7 billion, according to new data released by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.

Jay LaBine, MD, is a surgeon working at the forefront of America's changing healthcare economy, the provider-sponsored health plan.

The change will affect 10,000 workers, an estimated 7 percent of the 150,000 in the system's workforce, according to Ascension, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health network.

As giants like Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna and Humana target smartphone access, the payers must think hard about the kind of experience they're offering patients through an app.

Knowing when it's time to bring in outside help to improve the business is one thing, but with so many consultants to choose from, make sure you know what your organization wants.

While it's clear that second opinions can help individual patients make better medical decisions, there's little hard data showing that second opinions lead to better health results overall.

The further reimbursement cuts are expected push margins of an estimated 40 percent of all home health providers into loss territory.

Before committing to partnerships within a parochial healthcare network, all the players must know the stakes, the options available and most importantly, the methodology for proceeding with a business model that is foreign to most provider organizations.