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The long-standing problem of hospital-acquired infections, adverse events and medication errors is improving, new data suggest, although 1 in 25 hospital stays still comes with an infection.

Healthcare systems experimenting with a new way of being paid by Medicare would have three extra years before they could be punished for poor performance, the federal government proposed Monday.

As some states try to overhaul their programs for Medicare-Medicaid eligible beneficiaries, Indiana is turning to managed care plans to improve services.

After a year's worth of negotiations, a large health system is testing the limits of its clout and leaving a Blue Cross Blue Shield network, amid allegations of unfair reimbursement.

Seniors living in three states will now need prior approval from Medicare before they can get an ambulance to take them to cancer or dialysis treatments. The change is part of a three-year pilot to combat extraordinarily high rates of fraudulent billing by ambulance companies.

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

A surge in health insurer competition appears to be helping restrain premium increases in hundreds of counties next year, with prices dropping in many places where newcomers are offering the least expensive plans.

Where once healthcare CFOs were essentially entrusted with overseeing the nuts and bolts of finance and accounting, today their roles have been dramatically transformed.

Medical office buildings take up nearly 335 million square feet of space in the 10 largest metropolitan areas for medical real estate inventory, according to new data published by Revista. But the distribution of space across all 10 is anything but equal.

For healthcare financial executives, the integration of a new operation carries many challenges. And not the least is the question of how to compensate physicians who are joining the organization.