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Given the extent of its software problems, the federal health insurance exchange website, HealthCare.gov, probably won't be fully functional by the end of this month, an official with knowledge of the project told The Washington Post.

Insurers and providers partnered to form the following eight accountable care organizations or value-based care delivery arrangements within the past month, beginning with those most recently covered by Becker's Hospital Review.

In his conversations with patients, Gary Friestad, corporate registration manager at Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health, has found many people's greatest source of dread when entering a hospital isn't what's about to happen to them medically but the stress they are…

Thomas T. Haider, MD, is the founder of Haider Spine Center and chief of the spine division at Riverside (Calif.) County Regional Medical Center. He is also on the clinical faculty at the University of California, Riverside. He is the…

In a KevinMD blog post, Don S. Dizon, an oncologist, discusses lessons he has learned regarding communicating with patients and their families.

In a KevinMD blog post, Rob Lamberts, an internal medicine-pediatrics physician, discusses the three words that can help a physician define a philosophy of care.

Fort Collins, Colo.-based Orthopaedic and Spine Center of the Rockies has made a $25,000 donation to the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado to help fund flood relief efforts, according to Northern Colorado Business Report.

In a Physicians Practice article, Melissa Byington, president of the locum tenens division of CompHealth, discusses three important services that medical practices should look for when contracting with a locum tenens staffing agency.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine announced that L. Scott Levin, MD, has received the Sir John Charnley, MD, Award from The Arthritis Foundation.

Shawnee Mission (Kan.) Medical Center has opened an orthopedic and spine center, according to a report by The Kansas City Star.