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The growth of generic drugs has been a good news story for payers and pharmaceutical benefit managers (PBMs), but that story may be coming to an end.

Whether it's a partnership, a joint venture or the acquisition of one company by another, consolidation remains a hot issue in the healthcare industry.

A lot of attention has been paid to the percent of mostly healthy adults age 18 to 34 enrolled in the federal and state health insurance exchanges to date.

Connecticut's health insurance exchange is the first to meet its enrollment projections, but officials might be hoping to attract younger Nutmeggers before the 2014 open enrollment period ends.

The first insurer to post last year's financial results, UnitedHealth Group saw revenues grow 11 percent but margins slip -- a sign of industry pressures ramping up in the new era of health reform.

Businesses have used market research for decades to determine what brand of soap consumers like the most, or which luxury car is the "coolest," but physician leaders and hospital C-suite managers have traditionally shied away from such Madison Avenue tactics. But that may be a mistake.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending January 17, 2014.

Healthcare Finance News talked to Kevin Brennan, Geisinger's executive vice president and CFO, about the advantages the health system has seen by adopting the bundled payment model.

Empowered consumers, rapid innovation and increasing competition are among PwC's top health industry issues for 2014.

After recovering claims from a pharmacy provider, a group of 27 states are suing Novartis, alleging the company participated in a kickback scheme to boost Medicaid sales for a controversial blood drug.