A recent Washington Post article discusses Montefiore Medical Center, a Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) that “saved the government $24.5 million in Medicare spending.”

For-profit hospital chains are seeing many benefits from the Affordable Care Act. With expanded healthcare coverage as a result of the ACA, “for-profit hospital chain payer mix has improved, bad debt has declined and operating margins are edging up,” Modern Healthcare reports.

In the past decades, the amount patient’s pay for medical care has steadily decreased while government spending has increased to the point that it now “accounts for almost half of all health care spending.” Forbes author John Goodman lists 8 important effects of this trend.

With Medicare Open Enrollment beginning October 15th, the New York Times gives a list of important things older Americans should consider as they decide whether they want to stay with their current plan or change to a new one

The recently opened Open Payments website created by the government has “revealed that U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals had $3.5 billion worth of financial ties with drug and medical-device makers in the last five months of 2013”, LA Times reports.