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The nation's largest health insurer is making its free mobile app available to everyone, in a bid to move the needle on price transparency.

With patients paying more out-of-pocket costs and exchanges increasing the number of plans providers deal with, having financial counselors in a practice may become a necessity.

South Nassau Communities Hospital CFO Mark Bogen spoke with Healthcare Finance News about risk, controlling costs and revenue challenges for his Oceanside, N.Y.-based organization.

If all goes according to plan, next year many Arkansas Medicaid beneficiaries will be required to make monthly contributions to so-called Health Independence Accounts.

In the latest battle of the health reform wars, four words could bring down the Affordable Care Act's main insurance expansion policy, depending on which court interpretations gain traction.

A direct primary care company is targeting employers with a new self-funding model that could spell disruption for the third-party administrator business.

Medicare officials have allowed patients at dozens of hospitals participating in pilot projects across the country to be exempted from the controversial requirement that limits nursing home coverage to seniors admitted to a hospital for at least three days.

Hospitals are increasingly making reducing hospital-acquired infections and readmissions a priority -- and saving millions of dollars in the process -- but there are still gaps to be filled.

The diabetes and obesity epidemics mean more Americans may suffer from heart disease before they turn 65, challenging payers to craft better intervention models that help prevent serious cardiovascular events and increased spending on acute care.

It's a chilling reality often overlooked in annual mortality statistics: Preventable medical errors persist as the number three killer in the U.S. and the source of great waste.