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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule on Medicaid payments to disproportionate share hospitals (DSH) last week, cutting approximately $1.1 billion from the program over the next two fiscal years.

There is a "wide gap" between financial experts and the public at large on the issue of Medicare's financial state, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

The burgeoning market for clinical analytics solutions hinges on hospital margins following new payment reform.

Investor appetite for medical office buildings has been strong since 2012 and that trend has continued into 2013 and looks like it will persist.

Many health systems lag on strategies to take advantage of new open enrollment on health insurance exchanges that could help offset declining revenues from fewer admissions and more care moving outside of the hospital.

Much of the marketing to potential enrollees of health insurance exchanges has been conducted by health insurers and other organizations advancing the marketplaces, but health systems have a role to play in signing up individuals that could also benefit their bottom line.

A group of physicians hoping to offer new imaging and colonoscopy services in Virginia are facing an uphill battle trying to overturn the commonwealth's "certificate of need" law.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending September 20, 2013.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule on Medicaid payments to disproportionate share hospitals last week, cutting approximately $1.1 billion from the program over the next two fiscal years.

For healthcare employers, the recent modest growth in insurance premiums in employer-sponsored group plans has more impactful consequences for the their bottom line than it does for non-healthcare employers.