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Three participating providers in Next Generation have dropped out, with two citing financial targets as the reason for the departure.

Hospital employment increased by 1.7 percent from May 2010 to May 2014, with physicians and surgeons leading the charge, their employment growing 25.5 percent over that time, according to a MedPAC analysis of Bureau of Labor statistics.

Backers of Montana's seven-month-old Medicaid expansion say they're pleased with the first set of financial data released this week.

Government spending on "compounded" drugs that are handmade by retail pharmacists has skyrocketed, drawing the attention of federal investigators who are raising fraud and overbilling concerns.

Medicaid expansion is making a difference as to whether hospitals are investing in clinics, new equipment and hiring new staff, or looking at the status quo and layoffs, according to a recent report by Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.

The hacker broke into organizations on the HL7 network, the security firm has found, and has since put those records up for sale on the dark web. The security firm also said TheDarkOverlord is actively looking for more servers to hack in healthcare.

Hospital just the latest facility to deal with workers using the Nintendo app phenomenon.

Aetna and Gateway Health are forming an accountable care organization and releasing a new individual insurance plan to sell on Healthcare.gov in time for the 2017 open enrollment period, both organizations said.

A recent study examined this pattern and found the prescriptions are used and renewed more often than you might imagine.

New failures are piling up among the member-run health insurance co-ops carrying out one of the Affordable Care Act's most idealistic goals, leaving just seven remaining when the health law's fourth enrollment season starts in the fall.