Henry Franey has more than 30 years of experience within the hospital and healthcare sector, and he currently oversees the financial strategy of the University of Maryland Medical System, the third-largest employer in the Baltimore metro area.

Coordinated Health – Bethlehem (Pa.) and Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark have ended their contract after the two sides could not negotiate new payment rates, according to a Morning Call report.

Last week, CMS approved California's amendment to enact the Community First Choice Option (pdf), a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that incentivizes states to provide home health services to low-income seniors and people with disabilities in…

Twenty-four out of 65 acute-care hospitals in Massachusetts, or 37 percent, reported total margin losses in fiscal year 2011 — an increase from the 16 hospitals (24.6 percent) that lost money in FY 2010, according to a report from the…

Although four Minnesota HMOs returned $103 million in excess profits to the state's Medicaid program, they still recorded $230.4 million in net income in 2011, according to healthcare analyst and consultant Allan Baumgarten's 23rd annual report on Minnesota's healthcare market.

Managed care contracting is a tricky art in today's healthcare environment, and perhaps even more so for surgical hospitals.

Here are seven issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past week, starting with the most recent.

President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law in 2010 for, what many could say, two main reasons: to expand access to healthcare for most U.S. citizens and to control the country's rising healthcare costs.

Since August 2009, Duncan Gallagher has manned the finances of Minneapolis-based Allina Health, and he and the rest of the executive team have helped strengthen the health system's delivery model, market position and revenue growth.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket, R.I., have reached a memorandum of understanding to extend their insurance contract, according to a Providence Business News report.