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The ambulatory surgery center movement has some evidence to back up arguments for its relative cost-effectiveness, although variation can still be vexing for health plans and patients.

Health costs will accelerate next year, but changes in how people buy care will help keep them from attaining the speed of several years ago, PricewaterhouseCoopers says in a new report.

Many small, rural hospitals have struggled financially in recent years. But one critical access facility in Nebraska has discovered a means to financial stability and beyond.

A new call to action provides a blueprint for shoring up the primary care physician workforce by helping medical students see the benefits of choosing primary care.

The nation's diabetes and obesity crises have started taking their toll on healthcare spending, and some insurers are stepping in before new generations develop these problems in the long-term.

Just as government marketplaces are transforming their individual policy businesses, Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies are setting up private exchanges to save a far larger source of traditional revenue.

A quarter of the nation's hospitals in October will receive lower Medicare payments because their rates of patient complications are higher than their peers. Here is an explanation of the three measures Medicare is using to calculate the hospital-acquired conditions scores.

Many questions remain on how specific details of the Affordable Care Act will be resolved, but one significant trend is clear: the shift toward risk sharing among patients, providers and insurers is well underway.

At the core of fixing the broken healthcare delivery system is finance people working with clinicians, and the language to span the differences is data.

Healthcare finance professionals must better understand how value is delivered by frontline providers, and simultaneously offer providers business insight, said an expert on nursing management today at the HFMA ANI 2014 conference.