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Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending June 20, 2014.

Insurers that have submitted applications to sell exchange plans are currently waiting, hoping regulators will approve their premiums and that consumers will find them affordable, in what will be a more crowded marketplace.

Two greater Chicago health systems are joining forces to create what could become Illinois' third largest health network. But don't call it a merger.

No matter which healthcare CFO you ask, you will no doubt get the same response -- they spend the lion’s share of their workweek in meetings. But veteran healthcare CFOs have learned a few valuable lessons on how to make meetings as productive as possible, even if they can't make them go away.

The state of Illinois is nailing down key Medicaid policies ahead of a massive managed care rollout and accountable care experiment.

WellPoint has won the right to challenge a hospital's chargemaster billing practices, but the ultimate resolution could still disrupt relations with a key provider in a large market.

While the revenue cycle management system has been focused on clinicals, chief financial officers are saying their hospitals' financial infrastructure needs are more important.

MedPAC is out with its 15th annual mid-year report, offering advice for Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services to improve and sustain the senior's health program as it enrolls millions of retiring baby boomers. Here's what hospitals need to know about the commission's latest thinking.

A health plan and a health system are preparing for the rise of capitation in Medicaid with a new care management venture, as more state programs try to phase out fee-for-service.

How do hospitals survive if they keep patients healthy and at home? For New Hampshire’s New London Hospital, the answer is to partner with the largest hospital in the state to keep costs low and possibly boost patient volume.