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As hospitals and other healthcare facilities face tighter profit margins tied to care costs and cuts in reimbursement rates, more organizations are turning to just-in-time inventory management to keep supplies lean and costs low. But the approach comes with risks.

As long as employer-sponsored benefits are here to stay, one technology company wants to be a modern kind of broker and HR service. It may or may not spell an early retirement wave for a generation of insurance producers.

Executive instructed office staff to rely on false anesthesia records when preparing claims for reimbursement sent to Medicare, Medicaid and the insurance companies.

Organizations need to find ways to increase collections on the front end, revise charity policies and contract for shared risk to stay solvent, according to a new report from iVantage Health Analytics.

Medicaid expansion, and the rise of insured populations seeking care at the for-profit company's 200 hospitals, pads balance sheet for the Tennessee-based healthcare provider.

Chief financial officers must determine the best value-based care model for their healthcare organization, experts say.

The money, set aside under the Affordable Care Act, will help establish centers in 33 states and two U.S. territories, increasing access to primary healthcare services for nearly 650,000 people in communities that need them most.

The economic recovery has been a major driver, but the increase in the number of people insured through the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion is likely having the biggest effect.

Suit alleged the Denver-based healthcare company over-billed for reimbursement of dialysis drugs.

With new data from the Medicare Pioneer ACOs, accountable care advocates can be cautiously optimistic, although the pessimistic can also find things to latch onto as well.