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Our CEO, Kent Ivanoff sat down with Tom Salemi from Healthegy at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit in November to discuss challenges and solutions in patient billing. In this short video he discusses how patients are on the hook for…

Indiana expanded its Medicaid program in 2015 with a number of conservative policy caveats. Three years later, newly available state-level data provides insight into the possible influence of such policies, according to a Kaiser Health News report.

CMS wants to raise Medicare Advantage plan payments by an average 1.84 percent in 2019, according to a recent notice.

Cigna posted lower net income in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017, but grew full-year profits by 19.8 percent year over year.

A one-time $1.1 billion tax benefit under the new U.S. tax law sent Anthem's profits past the billion-dollar mark for the fourth quarter of 2017.

A Kentucky resident received a $12,596 bill from Frankfort (K.Y.) Regional Medical Center after her insurer, Anthem, deemed her trip to the hospital's emergency department nonemergent, according to Vox.

Becker's Hospital Review reported these nine contract resolutions and dissolutions between payers and providers since Jan. 1, beginning with the most recent.

Aetna recorded a 75.5 percent increase in fourth quarter profit in 2017 despite revenue declines.

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare remains in negotiations with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois and Health Alliance Medical Plans days before OSF's acquisition of two hospitals owned by Chicago-based Presence Health, The News-Gazette.  

Gary Loveman, executive vice president of consumer health and services, will leave his post at Aetna, the company confirmed with Becker's Hospital Review.