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Massachusetts' first annual report on the commonwealth's healthcare market shows a limited movement away from fee-for-service and a market concentrated among a few large payers.

The benefit of nonprofit hospitals to their surrounding community has increasingly been coming under scrutiny -- at least in relation to whether or not the benefit is equal to their tax-exempt status.

Instead of "going to war" to resolve contentious disputes, healthcare companies should employ preemptive dispute resolution procedures in contracts.

The associate degree is emerging as a prime ticket into the healthcare workforce. Of the 20 fastest growing healthcare occupations that require a college education, 10 are at the associate level, according to data supplied by Economic Modeling Specialists International.

The establishment and predicted growth of accountable care organizations is giving group purchasing organizations a new wrinkle to consider regarding procurement, membership and services they offer to hospital members.

Underlying changes in some healthcare cost factors appear to be taking root and have some economists wondering if the slowdown in healthcare spending growth may last beyond the near term.

War zone military care tactics inform Lincoln Health System ACO design.

Former Director, White House Office of Health Reform, and former Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Partner, Consonance Capital Partners, New York City

The delay of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate gives businesses and health plans an opportunity to better prepare, not to put off what they know they must do.

Premium rates published by a number of states for health insurance exchange plans appear to be lower than originally expected, but experts anticipate it won’t last.