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Integration with providers, narrow network ACO models, speaking members' languages and improving patient experience all key to earning, and keeping, an overall 5-star rating.

Expensive branded drugs, diagnostic testing and imaging for some patients prior to low-risk surgery and population-based vitamin D screening all make the list.

Local report says lawsuit alleges the hospitals made false claims in order to snag federal grant money for electronic health record systems.

Hospitals and other providers spend nearly $39 billion a year solely on the administrative activities associated with regulatory compliance, AHA says.

Cottage Health breached the data of over 50,000 patients in 2013 and 2015 after leaving a server unencrypted.

In 25 states starting in 2019, plans will be able to provide Medicare beneficiaries with more choices and lower cost, CMS says.

One patient got a $3,660 bill for a 4-mile ride. Another was charged $8,460 for a trip from one hospital that could not handle his case to another that could. Still another found herself marooned at an out-of-network hospital, where she'd been taken by ambulance without her consent.

Consumers coping with the high cost of health insurance are the target market for new plans claiming to be lower-cost alternatives to the Affordable Care Act that fulfill the law's requirement for health coverage.

Since Nov. 1, 2.27 million consumers have enrolled, outpacing the 2.13 million who signed up by Nov. 26, 2016.

A total of 30 rural hospitals are taking part in the budget neutral program that pays higher Medicare rates.