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Healthcare spending growth has hit a record low point following the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's, according to a recent White House report.

A majority of patients (55 percent) have started paying more attention to their medical bills during the past year, according to a survey conducted by the risk management company TransUnion.

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc., announced that JBJS Reviews, an online and tablet journal, is now live.

The estimated lifetime societal savings of the approximately 250,000 rotator cuff repairs performed in the U.S. each year was $3.44 billion, according to a study published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

At the Becker's Annual CEO Strategy Roundtable, held Nov. 14 in Chicago, Scott Dimmick, regional and market vice president of human resources at Cincinnati-based Catholic Health Partners, shared a talent management strategy to add value to healthcare organizations.

Most uninsured Americans who have visited a federal or state health insurance exchange site have been unhappy with the experience, according to a recent Gallup poll.

Some states have employed various strategies to shield health insurance consumers from the effects of "rate shock" and adverse selection.

Here are 11 thoughts on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as it moves into 2014, what many call its biggest year yet.

As the pressure to cut costs increases and patients shoulder more of the burden of paying for care, healthcare price transparency has become an unavoidable issue for hospitals, health systems and other providers.

According to a report from the American College of Physician Executives and Cejka Executive Search, compensation for physician executives is recovering slowly.