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Brad Sinclair has been named chief financial officer for the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s University Hospitals and Health System in Jackson, Mississippi.

This week the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its annual solicitation of recommendations for new or modified safe harbor provisions under the federal anti-kickback statute, as well as potential topics for new OIG Special Fraud Alerts.

In the year and years ahead for Medicaid, change will be driven as much by states as Washington, and managed care companies may have as many opportunities as challenges.

Though 2014 saw far fewer issues with Healthcare.gov, the federal government's health insurance exchange, officials are betting big that one of the industry's top firms can fix and improve the service for good.

Public hospitals can be among the most aggressive in collecting debts from poor patients, not only garnishing their wages, but cleaning out their bank accounts.

Wrangell Medical Center, a critical access hospital and long-term care facility, is on the edge of financial collapse, an independent audit by Anchorage, Alaska-based BDO USA found. A failed attempt to build a new hospital drained the hospital’s coffers of $3.5 million.

After a debut of health insurance marketplaces that fit all of the worst government contracting stereotypes, CMS has found a lead contractor to try to improve exchanges into the next decade.

When Healthcare Finance last year asked experts to name the top industry trends, they selected insurance exchanges, mergers and acquisitions, new payment models, and technology. Things don't look much different in 2015.

Will any of the new federally-backed cooperative insurers survive? To pro-business advocates skeptical of the Affordable Care Act in general, they are doomed and should be.

The Consult Inc. this week said it will buy Physician Management Information Services for an undisclosed price.