Given the vast technology problems many state-based exchanges experienced during the first open-enrollment period, state officials there and elsewhere remain wary of running their own websites.

Although the state and federal health insurance exchanges have most recently taken the national spotlight, attention may soon turn to private health exchanges.

Not every patient responds the same way to the same treatment, yet healthcare is moving toward a system based on population health. How can researchers, health plans, and providers respond? This month in The American Journal of Managed Care, Jennifer S. Graff, PharmD, and co-authors call for an approach that identifies when differences in patient responses are mostly like to matter, and offering greater flexibility when the patient’s health is most at stake.

HIV-positive individuals are not usually enrolled in clinical trials, resulting in a knowledge-gap on their treatment options.

The Obama administration and state insurance commissioners are developing new standards to oversee narrow networks as consumers begin to express concerns of limited physician choice and unexpected out-of-network costs.

This week, the nation turned its attention to the split rulings of 2 state federal court of appeals.

Active implementation of cost-saving measures successfully cut down expenditure at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.