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Lawmakers in Florida are considering requiring private health insurers to cover telehealth services.

Hospital IT budgets may be absorbed by EHRs but administrators are making other IT-related investments.

Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage held to the recent moderate trend, climbing to $16,351 this year, or 4 percent more than last year, according to the Employer Health Benefits Survey released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. 

Medians for U.S. not-for-profit healthcare systems remained steady in 2012, but analysts expect a weakening in ratios due to the pressures of healthcare reform.

Salaries for doctors are predicted to grow in 2014, with some classifications experiencing a larger bump than others.

A few Penn State professors are protesting a new policy requiring employees to complete health risk assessments, showing the tensions that penalty-driven wellness plans can bring.

The recent healthcare cost growth reduction is real, and it could be maintained because incentive structures have the potential to link the self-interest of all major health system stakeholders with the social interest in cost growth containment, quality improvement and better population health.

As the Department of Health and Human Services invests $67 million in insurance exchange navigators and $150 million more in enrollment assistance, some attorneys general are raising privacy and fraud concerns.

Florida's Shands Healthcare has agreed to pay $26 million to settle overbilling allegations.

Florida's Shands Healthcare has agreed to pay $26 million to settle allegations that six of the network's hospitals had billed Medicare, Medicaid and the Department of Defense's TRICARE healthcare program for inpatient procedures that should have been processed as outpatient services, the Justice Department said Monday.