Anthony Brino

The parent health system of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals lost $17.5 million in the three months that ended March 31, as the winter's 9 feet of snow kept some patients from coming into the hospitals and clinics.

Seventy-three health systems and providers sold their own health plans on the ACA exchanges this year.

Given the shift of healthcare resources to primary and preventive care, there are real, long-standing problems with the health insurance model that could be solved uniquely when the payer is owned by the provider business getting paid.

Organizational differences were just too difficult to bridge, executives say, ending what would have been Boston's only merger since 1994.

CVS is planning to open more than 100 new clinics this year -- recent ones opened in Nebraska, New Mexico and Wisconsin -- and could surpass 1,500 locations by 2017.

Study by Standard & Poor's finds a number of provider-owned health plans and cooperative insurers may not get the funding they had hoped for.

With Prime's deal dead, and bankruptcy on the horizon, Daughters of Charity executives have several options for possible new deals, including many of the original bidders.

For the 9 months that ended March 3, Daughters saw a $55.3 million operating loss as it looks for a new buyer after its sale to Prime Healthcare fizzles out.

Medicaid expansion, and the rise of insured populations seeking care at the for-profit company's 200 hospitals, pads balance sheet for the Tennessee-based healthcare provider.

The system is designed to extend the expertise of Jefferson clinicians to suburbanites through telehealth, urgent care centers and Abington's three community hospitals and clinics.