Texas on Thursday passed regulations barring Planned Parenthood clinics and other "affiliates of abortion providers" from participating in the state's Medicaid program starting March 14, the Texas Tribune is reporting.

States vary widely in how effective they are at creating systems that help healthcare providers and insurers share health information such as insurance claims and medical data, according to a new study from two researchers at the Brookings Institution.

Efforts to change how Americans pay for health care are gathering momentum on a national scale as UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer, becomes the latest carrier to say it is overhauling its fees for medical providers.

The Obama administration blocked an effort by California to charge Medicaid patients for emergency room visits and hospital stays and allow health-care providers to turn away those who couldn’t pay.

Healthcare reform standards for electronic funds transfers and how health providers determine a patient's eligibility will save billions, officials say.

Opinion by Adam Frederic Dorin, M.D., M.B.A.

Opinion by Ezra Klein

More than 2,400 physicians, health policy experts and executives signed a letter sent to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Thursday urging the federal government to reject recommendations by the Institute of Medicine on how to define "essential benefits" in state health insurance exchanges under the federal health reform law.