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State judge says provision was not in public interest since it would allow the healthcare provider to grow too big.

Three patients in California claim the company has taken over most outpatient diagnostic services in the region by acquiring would-be rivals and colluding with payers like Aetna and Blue Shield of California to stifle competition.

Health Care Transformation Task Force says 75 percent of the members will convert by 2020 as Medicare plans to tie 50 percent of payments to quality by 2018.

Politician plans to block the merger on the grounds that it would make the state's largest health system too big to function fairly.

The gift — the second $50 million grant in two years — will help fund an eight-care complex in Philadelphia.

Providence Health in the northwest and Novant Health in the southeast are pushing population health, high technology and other options that are creating value and improving care.

Health system will cut its workforce of 90,500 by 1.7 percent amid some hefty losses incurred in the expansion.

As new owners of physician practices, many health systems are on a mission to integrate clinics with their hospitals.

Lawyers for Seattle Children's Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital convinced a federal judge to temporarily block the enforcement of a Medicaid rule requiring private insurance reimbursement to be included in calculating their hospital-specific limits to these payments.

While prices have increased everywhere, the rate of increase was much lower at hospitals in states using the site.