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Hospitals are increasingly offering patient-financing strategies, cooperating with financial institutions to offer on-the-spot loans to make sure patients pay their bills.

Brokers are turning over ideas that can help their self-funded clients offset soaring stop-loss premiums. This article takes a close look at seven such ideas.

CVS's already costly deal looks even more expensive after its warning on Thursday of a possible profit decline this year, despite an expected $1.2 billion benefit from tax cuts. CVS shares fell though it reported positive quarterly results.

Proposals include making sure seniors in Medicare benefit from discounts that middlemen negotiate with drugmakers, establishing a spending cap on out-of-pocket prescription costs, and potentially making generic drugs free for low-income seniors.

Suburbs in the United States are home to nearly 17 million Americans who live in poverty more than in cities or rural areas and growing demand for care strains the capacity of suburban health services to provide for them.

President Donald Trump has frequently been accused of trying to undermine Obamacare. New data show that by at least one measure he didnt do a particularly good job of it.