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Why the costs for an increasingly common surgery should vary so much across and within regions is the key question Blue Cross companies are trying to answer, as new research find that pricing swings are still the norm.

While the sector is struggling, one expert offers these financial tips for enhancing investment assets to shore up balance sheets at hospitals and health systems.

While healthcare did not take up too much of Pres. Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday, the commander in chief did make sure to tout his initiatives and throw out some new ideas for the field.

Consumer-focused patients are changing everything about how they receive care, and to ignore that is to risk deep losses, panel says.

Experts say providers should look outside the organization to help free up resources for performance improvement.

The Mayo Clinic on Tuesday said it will ditch its in-house electronic health record systems and instead contract with Verona, Wisconsin-based Epic for patient records and revenue cycle management.

Judges to determine whether hospitals, doctors can sue over inequality in reimbursement rates.

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Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Erlanger Health System on Tuesday said it earned a record $12.7 million profit in its fiscal second quarter, its highest in 30 years and its first profit after posting consecutive losses in the past three years.

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