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Internal labor audits may help hospitals and healthcare organizations navigate myriad labor laws, union contracts and other workforce issues.

Florida Blue Cross and Blue Shield is in the midst of reorganizing into a "policyholder-owned, not-for-profit mutual insurance holding company."

As healthcare delivery and reimbursement models transition to ensuring quality care versus quantity of care, some sectors of the healthcare industry will benefit more than others.

Wellpoint said its solid financial results were due to taming medical cost increases in its employer-based business and benefiting from the Medicaid operations in its recent Amerigroup transaction.

Lawyers for Cigna are asking a federal appeals court to reject a Houston hospital's bid to sue over withheld medical reimbursements, arguing that the provider's "prompt pay discounts" threw its cost-sharing model awry.

Here's a wonderful idea: patients and providers working together in shared decision-making, accepting and trusting each other's input. Isn't that the goal our healthcare system should strive for? Not so fast.

The topic of why it costs more to treat patients in some areas of the country than in others has caused feuds among researchers. Given the decades-long argument, a new IOM report is likely to only add fuel to the fire.

As healthcare delivery and reimbursement models transition to ensuring quality care versus quantity of care, some sectors of the healthcare industry will benefit more than others.

As Medicaid enrollment continues to grow, the financial sustainability of the risk-based managed care model is being tested.

WellPoint Inc., the second largest health insurer, posted better-than-expected second quarter earnings Wednesday by taming medical cost increases in its employer-based business and benefiting from the Medicaid operations in its recent Amerigroup transaction.