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A new study suggests educating doctors via real-time price comparison is a potentially effective tool in the effort to control costs.

To be successful, a hospital must acquire physician practices able to work in a world that is essentially foreign to what they are used to. The 'new normal' is based on value, outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Medicare could benefit with improved care and savings if seniors could access healthcare services online, according to a study that found that increasingly more tech savvy older consumers are interested in using digital health tools in their home.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending November 22, 2013.

A ProPublica review of records from the California Department of Social Services shows the state collected less than half of the more than $2 million in fines it issued against assisted living facilities from 2007 to 2012.

President Barack Obama's bid to throw a life preserver to stranded consumers who received cancellation notices from their health plans may lead to financial losses and uncertainty for payers and increase bad debt for hospitals.

Strategy is the name of the game if you're a hospital CEO. For many, that includes a presence on social media. But is that a strategy every CEO should use?

President Barack Obama's bid to throw a life preserver to stranded consumers who received cancellation notices from their health plans may increase bad debt for hospitals and financial losses and uncertainty for payers.

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

A new poll from the Ponemon Institute has found that security preparedness is still sorely lacking across healthcare – a fact that could leave unsuspecting organizations "blindsided" by breaches.