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Medicare accountable care organizations are having varying rates of success in addressing their patients' diabetes and heart disease, according to government data released Friday.

You can’t optimize the healthcare supply chain in 2014 without technology.

While keeping their options open, Medicare regulators are proposing to reduce Medicare Advantage rates by 3.5 percent, along with some other changes that could make the decline even steeper.

Massachusetts' new healthcare transparency agency is arguing that Partners HealthCare's acquisition of a suburban hospital is likely to raise employer and payer costs, setting the stage for state or federal authorities to block the deal.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending February 21, 2014.

As more Medicaid beneficiaries gain access to behavioral health treatment, peer support programs offer a lot of benefits, but cost savings may not be one of them.

The executive director at Nevada's health insurance exchange is stepping down amid poor enrollment and website glitches, with the board now mulling a switch to the federal marketplace.

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) has pledged to invest more than $1.3 million in four initiatives designed to expand the use of telemedicine to treat patients with behavioral healthcare needs in underserved urban and rural areas of Maryland and Washington, D.C.

Despite acknowledging the importance of using business intelligence, many healthcare providers have not implemented the systems.

3M Health Information Systems will acquire Treo Solutions, which develops healthcare data analytics and business intelligence technology, for an undisclosed sum.