Administrative costs for private health insurance plans and the federal government are expected to increase $270 billion in the next decade. This year, overhead costs are expected to account for 45 percent of all federal spending related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

CFOs are concerned with the "Cadillac tax" companies will have to pay starting in 2018 for offering high-cost health insurance plans.

Computer hackers are increasingly targeting doctors and hospitals and are costing the U.S. healthcare system $6 billion. In 2014, 88.4 million people had their health records breached, nearly twice as many as in 2010.

AstraZeneca led the pack of pharmaceutical companies for revenue from cardiovascular drugs in 2014, according to a PMLive analysis. But of the top 10 companies, only Bayer and Takeda posted growth in sales that year. Here are figures for the leading companies.

Amarin Pharma sued the FDA on May 7 and declared it had the constitutional right to discuss off-label use of drugs with doctors, the New York Times reports.

In 2013, the federal government spent $103 billion on prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries, the New York Times reports.

As an early career electrophysiologist, Richard I. Fogel, MD, learned to raise his hand when projects needed a captain. Now he’s CEO of the St. Vincent Medical Group in Indianapolis and president of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS). His formula? Listen, ask good questions, surround yourself with talented people and let them do their jobs, he explains in a Q&A with Cardiovascular Business.

It turns out the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) can’t turn itself on a dime, and as a result, some doctors will see reimbursement cut by 21.1 percent temporarily. The Senate’s 10 p.m. vote on April 15 to repeal the sustainable growth rate formula came too late for CMS to pull the switch on cuts fully, The Hill reported. CMS promised to reprocess Medicare claims for shortchanged physicians after it updates the system.