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Any health insurance company that seeks to buy another insurer will have some tough questions to answer. So, after Aetna…
When health policy experts talk about ways to improve how Medicare and commercial health plans pay for care, they often…
If you cover health care payment reform, then you know that health insurers, states, and the Medicare program are all…
When health system executives tout the benefits of acquiring hospitals or physician groups, they often say the combined entity will…
Across the country, health systems are getting larger, gobbling up community hospitals or smaller chains. Some of this has to…
Health care consumers in North Carolina got some welcome news last month when the state Department of Health and Human…
Finally, we may be seeing the beginning of the end of fee-for-service payment. In an announcement Monday, the federal Department…
I’m sure a lot of you have Steven Brill’s “America’s Bitter Pill” on your bedside table by now – I’m…
In January 2012, EMTs took Ignacio Alaniz by helicopter to Memorial Hermann Hospital, one of the largest nonprofit medical centers…
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Health journalists received a few lessons in economics during a discussion last week on some alarming drug trends – largely…