Although most of the media attention given to healthcare reform legislation has focused on its anticipated effects in the marketplace, reform will have an effect on hospital costing systems as well. Costing systems will have to be redesigned, repositioned, and re-implemented as providers create new, innovative organizational structures and...

Accountable care organizations take up only seven pages of the massive new health law yet have become one of the most talked about provisions. This latest model for delivering services offers doctors and hospitals financial incentives...

Reducing healthcare costs requires emphasizing quality rather than quantity, says Peter Orszag, PhD, former director of the Office of Management and Budget and now vice chairman of the Institutional Clients Group at Citigroup, Inc.