The relatively smooth transition to ICD-10 has been a pleasant surprise for health care organizations and appears to be for real.

In recent months, several nonprofit insurance plans that were created to compete with for-profit insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act have run into financial difficulties.

In recent years hospitals have been rapidly acquiring physician practices, a trend that could potentially lower health care spending or increase spending by increasing prices or use of profitable hospital-based services.

Research into diabetes and obesity has made some huge strides in recent years. And one of the most promising findings is related to the functioning of BAT, home to brown adipocytes.

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Jeffrey Ortega has Proteus syndrome, which also afflicted the Elephant Man. His feet are so big they only fit 10-year-old Crocs.

Diabetes is the seventh-deadliest illness in America, and more than 29 million in the U.S. have it. About a quarter million of those are Hoosiers.

Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy and Michigan Democrat Debbie Stabenow agree that more work is needed in health care reform, but disagree on solutions.

Medicare reform must boldly empower seniors to better control their health care spending, according to an October report from Devon M. Herrick, Ph.D., senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis..

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a request for information — seeking comments on two key components of physician payment reform provisions.

As the federal government takes a closer look at accountable care organizations, many wonder if the promise of getting doctors, hospitals and other health care providers on the same page will ever bear out.