Nearly three-quarters of healthcare executives perform data analytics, Health Data Management reports.

Humana and Aetna expect their Medicare Advantage funding to decrease in 2016, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The Department of Health and Human Services revealed that health plans without hospital benefits do not qualify as satisfying the minimum value requirement, Kaiser Health News reports.

Boston, Massachusetts, February 17, 2015 – Press Ganey announced today it has signed a multi-year agreement with Boston Children’s Hospital, a leading pediatric hospital, to capture and assess patient and family experience data through the newly created Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (Child HCAHPS) hospital survey.

For the first time since the federal government began collecting data, the aggregate price of acute-care hospital care declined in January compared with the previous January, Modern Healthcare reports.

A judge in Chicago upheld a government lawsuit against IPC The Hospitalist, a firm that employs physicians and acute-care specialists in 27 states, Bloomberg reports.

By some estimates, healthcare is only responsible for 10 percent of the factors related to longevity; the rest is dependent on genetics, socioeconomic circumstances and healthy habits. That means care alone is inadequate, and public policy should change to reflect that reality, a health policy expert contends.

Members of the House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would repeal a tax on health insurance companies, The Hill reports.