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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 May 2, 2014.

April brought "widespread" growth of jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday morning, and a return to normal for job growth in the healthcare sector.

Mothballing, busted budgets and a lack of credibility are swirling in the minds of ICD-10 managers, and it's enough to make some insurers question the logic of future investments.

Cigna is hoping to sustain positive first quarter results for the rest of the year,  in part relying on expanding collaborative care initiatives, as new exchange members turn out to be surprisingly high utilizers.

The proposal for next year's Medicare inpatient payments to hospitals continues the pressure on them, and doubles down on a controversial policy.

Hospitals of all sizes are looking for partners. But the quest to increase market share by acquiring physician groups or other hospitals is drawing critical analysis from regulators, particularly if a merger results in eliminating a competitor.

In years past, many hospitals didn't think twice about buying new property as an investment in the future, confident that they would eventually see a return on their investment. But, as the song says, "the times they are a-changin'."

New York's attorney general has fired what he hopes will be a warning shot at the industry of loan brokers and lenders targeting consumers who want to pay for elective procedures.

After the first open enrollment period, WellPoint executives are confident that public exchanges will be profitable and that they won't be bailing anybody out. Other areas, they're not so sure about, despite better than expected first quarter results.

Aggregated clinical data are essential to managing population health. But analyzing the financial health of various service lines is a complex undertaking.