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Amid an intense debate about the cost and value of drugs, a big payer and a big pharma company are promising to comb through their collective evidence and deliver new knowledge that may improve patient outcomes.

Two years ago General Dynamics, one of the biggest federal contractors, reported a quarterly loss of $2 billion. An "eye-watering" result, one analyst called it.

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

Despite the many Medicare reform initiatives the ACA is sweeping in, Republican leaders in Congress say there are just as many areas of Medicare that are broken, chaotic and in need of change.

Financial incentives continue to lead more healthcare providers to adopt electronic health records, according to a data brief from the Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.

A population healthcare model in Mississippi that use telehealth technology to help curb the worst of diabetes has achieved early success and caught the attention of the state government.

The 2015 open enrollment is off to a pretty good start and the new market is working, federal officials insist, but for consumers and insurers, there is still a tough slough, albeit of a different sort.

CMS appears to recognize the significant challenges that many ACOs have faced in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, and has proposed a number of changes to the financial performance tracks for ACOs participating in the program.

With many health information exchanges showing mixed success, the impetus to start digital patient data sharing is increasingly falling on payers. Some of Colorado's largest insurers are heeding the call.

CareerCast, a Carlsbad, California-based online jobs database, released its top 10 jobs in the healthcare field Thursday, highlighting careers in the industry that have the highest growth potential over the next eight years.