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All healthcare providers worry about attracting and retaining good employees. Fred Morgeson, a professor of management, offers healthcare employers five tips for successful hiring and employee retention.

As more insurance companies adopt mobile strategies, Google's payer guru says health insurance as a whole has a lot of work to do following the modern mobile, internet-based consumer.

Aetna is buying an international medical insurer, eying a growing market for expatriate plans in Asia, Africa and Europe and bolstering its 500,000-plus international membership.

The new face of Medicaid may be underemployed millennials, but that may bode well for Medicaid's finances.

Consumers are not alone in finding retail clinics an attractive option. Increasingly, hospitals are adding them to their array of services.

Hospitals are increasingly adding retail clinics to their array of services because they can help to reduce some costs. A recent national study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) found that the proportion of retail clinics owned by hospital systems doubled (from 9 percent to 18 percent) between 2007 and 2010.

Physicians across a number of specialties are taking the lead to test developing new payment and delivery models. But they need more support from commercial and public payers to make them more widely adopted.

Physicians across a number of specialties are taking the lead to test developing new payment and delivery models. A few of them described their projects at a Brookings Institution forum on physician payment reform.

UnitedHealthcare is making available an online and mobile cost and quality estimator tool for inpatient medical services, including for knee replacement, spinal surgery and childbirth.

Some 5,800 physicians at Anthem Blue Cross of California are being notified that their Social Security or tax identification numbers were posted online by mistake.