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Keep up to date with the changing roles and faces in the world of healthcare finance with this regularly updated gallery.

A mapping of the new individual market's variation in premium regulation show the evolution of a national market at once attempting to be standardized and amenable to state approaches.

Under the regulations, charitable hospitals have to perform a community health needs assessment at least once every three years, and disclose the programs addressing those needs in annual tax forms with the IRS.

The nation's largest pharmacy chain is tweaking its accountable care experiments, ending some relationships and starting others, as it embarks on another more potentially-disruptive venture.

The Kenedy, Texas-based Otto Kaiser Memorial Hospital recently said it has secured $43.8 million in bonds to fund a new hospital that will replace its aging facility.

Revenue cycle management firm Accretive Health restated its 2013 results last week, showing that the company swung to a $130 million profit for the year, compared to a loss of nearly $120 million in 2012.

You're sitting on too much money and have to spend it in the community, says one insurance commissioner, while another state regulator has different, minimum requirements.

Walgreens said it is cutting ties with two accountable care organizations, though the nation's largest pharmacy chain has also launched a new partnership on the West Coast to help manage ACO patients.

The expansion of insurance coverage to some 10 million individuals in 2014 has implications for the growth rate in national health expenditures and on health workforce requirements. While there is broad agreement that spending and utilization will be pushed upward, there is much debate about the amounts.

Here's a look at some more recent headlines in the world of healthcare finance.