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Aetna, UnitedHealth dropped from state Medicaid program

Connecticut, beginning this past weekend, has dropped private insurers from running Medicaid plans for the state's 400,000 managed care members. Connecticut instead will assume financial

Unrestrained costs lead to deficit crisis, HFMA chair warns

The chair of the Healthcare Finance Management Association's (HFMA) board provided some dire predictions for 2012 and beyond during the organization's virtual conference last week if spending is not

Hospital dental care benefits community, cuts costs

Hospital finance executives spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to treat the uninsured patients who stream into their emergency rooms as inexpensively as possible. Those costs are almost

A lot can happen in a week of health IT

I'm back from my first full week off in more than a year. While it was nice to be able to sleep in, play some tennis, ignore tons of email and generally recharge my batteries, I have to say it's

Is ONC being stretched too thin with insurance-exchange enrollment project?

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, formed in 2004 as kind of a bully pulpit to rally the troops behind health IT, has widened its responsibilities over time.