Today is the deadline for states to decide whether they — or the federal government — will operate their health insurance exchange, and roughly two-thirds of all states are expected to have some type of federal partnership, according to estimates…

Yesterday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the city can no longer afford to supply free water to non-profit hospitals and other organizations, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

As Congress members and President Barack Obama continue to grapple with the so-called "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax hikes, one executive at Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America believes increasing the eligibility age of Medicare must be considered…

When healthcare coverage expands in 2014 under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini expects health premiums to increase heavily, perhaps as much as 100 percent in some group markets, according to a Bloomberg report.

Health insurance giant Aetna expects to be included on 15 state health insurance exchanges to be constructed as part of the health reform law, according to a Reuters report.

CMS' Value-Based Purchasing program began in October, and with it, patient satisfaction became exponentially more important.

Non-profit health insurer Blue Shield of California hopes to raise rate for some individual policy holders by an average of 12 percent, with some requested increases topping out at 20 percent, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

Eleven Republican governors requested in a letter to meet with President Barack Obama to discuss the impact of the federal healthcare law on their states, particularly the push to expand Medicaid and establish statewide health insurance exchanges, according to a…

For patients, emergency departments within acute-care hospitals are one of the most important components of a community. EDs are there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and they give a sense of calm that if the worst-case scenario…

The Obama administration approved an Ohio proposal to better coordinate funding for residents receiving both need-based Medicaid and age- or ability-based Medicare — commonly known as "dual-eligibles" — according to a Columbus Dispatch report.