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Mastercard launches new healthcare unit on billing, data security

Dive Brief: Mastercard is bringing its scale and billing background to the healthcare, launching a new unit around revenue cycle management and data security. Previously, the financial services giant only offered flexible spending account, health savings account and health reimbursement arrangement cards for those in employer-sponsored plans. New products include predictive analytics built into a… Read More »

Column: There’s enormous waste in U.S. healthcare, so why isn’t anyone doing anything about it? – Los Angeles Times

As Mark Twain reputedly said about the weather, everybody talks about waste in the U.S. healthcare system, but nobody does anything about it. A new study puts numbers on the scale of that waste and nails down its sources. But it leaves open the question of what to do about it. That’s especially true of… Read More »