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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is proposing a number of new tweaks and more stringent requirements for Medicare Part D, hoping to save more than $1 billion over five years.

A recent article on abuse of resident trust funds in nursing homes indicates more oversight of these funds is needed, but the industry says the processes for managing trust funds are sufficient.

While many states are still trying to establish the core services of their health insurance marketplace, some exchanges are already setting a blueprint for business opportunities beyond a platform that enables shopping for and purchasing health coverage.

Recent court decisions in Michigan are making the issue of public employee benefits restructuring even more murky for states and local governments, and potentially adding more reasons for the Supreme Court to weigh in.

An analysis of new Medicare data provides a look at how the nation's hospitals are doing with all-cause, unplanned readmissions.

Hospitals and health systems will face ever more pressure in 2014 to establish the core skills needed to thrive in a rapidly changing healthcare market.

More than 10,000 Colorado state employees have participated in wellness activities in a health incentive program since July, with one half of them having completed a health risk assessment.

Nearly four years after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law promising the biggest expansion of health care coverage in half a century, the public remains deeply split over it.

Merger and acquisition activity continued at a robust pace in the closing months of 2013, and by all accounts, the industry will see more of the same in 2014.

Despite the noise around the higher cost of some health plans on the exchanges, rate increases generally have more to do with the trend of steadily higher medical costs than with provisions of the Affordable Care Act.