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One of the nation's largest health systems is struggling with its new health insurance business, leading to the first loss in 15 years.

One of the nation's largest health systems is struggling with its new health insurance business, leading to the first financial loss in 15 years, and adding to other uncertainties.

Whether to cancel a company health insurance plan and let workers buy insurance on the online exchanges is an issue that arises for every small-group employer. But businesses shifting workers into the individual exchanges tend to be the very smallest.

Once in a while, a key voice in the reform movement turns out to be a skeptic, arguing that the changes being implemented are too prone to producing more of the same.

San Francisco-based healthcare services company McKesson Corp. said it has launched a venture fund to invest in healthcare companies, targeting firms that plan new products tied to the growing consumerism within healthcare.

Poverty continues to have an effect on repeated hospitalizations -- a situation that threatens to cost health systems in higher Medicare readmissions penalties if post-discharge plans are not established.

Consumers shopping on the health insurance marketplaces will find many plans with out-of-pocket spending limits that are lower than the maximums allowed under the health law, according to an analysis by Avalere Health.

More than 50 accountable care organizations across the United States took in millions in incentive payments in 2014 after exceeding savings benchmarks set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The Jane Phillips Medical Center, member of St. John Health System in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, named James Brasel as the hospital's chief financial officer, effective Dec. 1.

With less than a week until the deadline to buy individual health insurance that begins Jan. 1, experts say sign-ups are on course to hit or exceed the Obama administration's projection of about 9 million enrollees in 2015.