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.

States have until Sept. 30 to finalize the essential health benefits covered under qualified health plans that will be offered in health insurance exchanges, and some states are approaching the deadline in different ways.

WellCare Health Plans, a managed care insurer with 2.6 million members, announced it will acquire Easy Choice Health Plan, a health plan with 34,000 Medicare Advantage enrollees in southern California.

Healthcare rationing, a phrase that evokes gasps and furrowed eyebrows, is already occurring within the confines of the United States, argues Carolyn McClanahan in a recent Forbes article — it's just currently done irrationally.