With Aetna picking up health information exchange vendor Medicity for $500 million earlier this week, and Unitedhealth Group’s Ingenix buying Medicity’s top competitor, Axolotl, earlier this year, the HIE market is going through a major upheaval with few (one could even argue no) strong, independent vendors left, according to Chilmark Research.

NovoLogix Inc. is not the easiest company to understand. But it does have a colorful past and an intriguing future.Once a $400 million force in the home-health care market, the former Ancillary Care Management has remade itself into a software-as-a-service company that focuses on helping payers manage claims relating to fast growing demand for expensive [...]

A health insurance company, prosthetics developer and a medical-device manufacturer received job-creation tax credits worth about $2.3 million. The companies promise to create 289 jobs.

The American Medical Association announced today it joined with state medical associations on the East Coast and the South to sue Aetna Health and CIGNA, saying the two health-insurance companies dramatically under-reimburse physicians.