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If we can identify the "underlying path" of health spending, we can do a better job of predicting the future from a noisy history. This underlying path can also serve as the curve to be monitored for evidence of any "bend."

In a region dominated by one insurer and teeming with health systems, accountable care models are gaining provider acceptance but still accumulating evidence.

After quietly building a small insurance unit, one of the nation's largest health systems is launching a new health plan brand that could pose more competition for established insurers.

The healthcare tech boom continues, as one of the most-heralded consumer insurance comparison startups was acquired by an insurance services firm hungry for growth.

Union Village, an integrated health community where seniors can both live and receive healthcare services may be the future of healthcare.

Financial models involve a whole series of assumptions about such elements as volume, payer mix and salaries. While a health system may have historical data to work from, putting together projections for a new line of business is more difficult.

Evidence from recent federal enforcement actions suggest pharmacy benefit managers are exposing public-payer managed care plans to problems that could send shivers up executive's spines.

Uncompensated care was supposed to be a thing of the past, but it's persisting in many states not expanding Medicaid eligibility. As an alternative, for some high-cost uninsured patients, hospitals are turning to a new option.

Group plans are increasingly expanding their consumer-directed health plans with health savings accounts, after toying with lower deductibles and reimbursement account wrapping.

If we don't fundamentally change the way we pay for healthcare, we won't change the economic principles that continue to drive the rapid growth in healthcare spending. Let's pay physicians and hospitals based on the health problems their patients have.