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Doctors have called the programs confusing and time-consuming and say they offer little clinical benefit while detracting from their ability to care for patients.

"We're comfortable being known as the health plan that wants to put health systems in the business of selling insurance."

Lynda Douglas thought she had a deal with Tennessee. She would adopt and love a tiny, unwanted, profoundly disabled girl named Charla. The private insurance companies that run Tennessee's Medicaid program would cover Charla's healthcare.

Linda Burt of Nebraska Methodist and Katrina Belt of Baptist Health say analytics gives them the data to reshape their healthcare environments in the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care reimbursement.

The insurer is demanding reductions from what it believes are overpaid hospitals and physicians, while CHI is health is trying to meet it with what it believes are reasonable compromises.

Grant would support partnerships with clinicians working in Boston Children's psychology department.

Like other recent proposals for inpatient hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, payment would be tied to new standards for quality reporting.

Blue Shield of California is embroiled in a fight with a former executive over $100,000 spent on Hollywood nightclubs and other dubious items.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies are setting up their own insurance exchange for retirees switching to individual Medicare plans, a bid to secure lifetime customers from in a new population of seniors.

The health system is losing around $6 million a month, and may or may not be able to find a buyer after for-profit hospital chain Prime backed out of an $843 million takeover deal.