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Hospitals are not required to share how they use revenue from the federal program and researchers have uncovered funds that were used for purposes "seeming unrelated" to patient care, in a JAMA review.

Congress is considering legislation that would equalize payments for certain services regardless of where they are provided, but for now, patients need to have doctors send the order to a commercial lab like Labcorp or Quest.

Health plan price transparency offers the promise of empowering benefits advisors and health plan sponsors to design better health care benefits, especially for the 100 million Americans covered by a self-funded employer plan. 

By aligning employers, providers and health plans around shared goals, benefits advisors can help reshape a spiraling system, incentivize quality and improve affordability.

The growing consolidation between primary care practices and large health systems corresponded with insurers paying more for the same types of care visits, according to a new JAMA study.

We asked our readers what the biggest hot button issues are that are on their radar this year as we prepare for Q4 craziness?

58% of people find paying a health care bill to be stressful.

Luke Davis believes that the key to this industry is to refuse to settle for the status quo.