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With and without government, some of healthcare's largest businesses, and those who pay for it, are mapping their own path to a critical mass of value-based payments.
State will pay for its share of the expansion costs beginning in 2017 with hospital fees and a cigarette tax.
Early adoption helps Massachusetts provider stay ahead as government mandates broader departure from fee-for-service.
One of the country's most promising new insurers could not be saved by state regulators. For some local advocates and insurance veterans, it is an opportunity lost to health reform policies gone awry.
More than a dozen Blues are trying to attract the next generation of members and help keep current customers as they age. To do that, they're invoking old school insurance ideas for the modern world.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants have 50 percent of Medicare reimbursements tied to quality and value by 2018, even if that includes fee-for-service.
One state's home-grown approach to health reform has produced a few discrepancies in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, including one big dispute between insurers over risk-sharing.
Are the two biggest forces in American healthcare, health insurers and health systems, investing enough in research and development?
HHS said it wants 30 percent of payments for traditional Medicare benefits tied to alternative payment models such as ACOs or bundled pay arrangements by the end of 2016.
Cigna is acquiring a hospital-owned managed care company that serves a fairly diverse customer base of employers, providers and even potential competitors.