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Health insurer UnitedHealthcare will partner with a local doctor’s group in a move they say will lower health care costs.The move could affect more than…

A high-profile Medicare experiment pushing doctors and hospitals to join together to operate more efficiently has yet to save the government money, with…

One of the main ways the Affordable Care Act seeks to reduce health care costs is by encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to…

The need to reduce patient readmission rates is leading hospitals across Florida to share ideas with one another. The “fee-for-service” payment era is…

The Obama administration Monday announced a goal of accelerating changes to Medicare so that within four years, half of the program’s traditional spending…

A program that rewards or punishes health care providers for providing better, cheaper care is expanding. The federal government announced 89 new…

Health care systems experimenting with a new way of being paid by Medicare would have three extra years before they could be punished for poor…

Managed Care Matters columnist Joe Paduda, an expert on workers compensation issues, writes about two ways the Affordable Care Act is forcing a change…

Jaime Pinto, 69, still sees the same doctors and gets prescriptions the same way he always has. He doesn’t know he’s part of a revolutionary change in the…