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Payments to outpatient care centers saw the most growth.

Running its own health plan has allowed Marshfield Clinic to design a value-based reimbursement model that rewards physicians for quality, clean coding and cost maintenance.

While value-based care is making the move more attractive, getting an insurance product off the ground isn't the easiest.

Health system-owned plans now represent 52 percent of health insurance products, AIS said.

Israel-based pharmaceutical company will meet with U.S. FDA to re-submit its marketing application, hopes to launch generic by 2018.

From 2011 to 2015, insurers' payments to hospitals, laboratories, treatment centers and other medical providers for these patients grew from $32 million to $446 million -- a 1,375 percent increase.

Medicare already plans to stop paying certain hospital-owned physician practices at higher rates than those that are independently owned.

Insurer drew attention two years ago as the only Affordable Care Act co-op to make money from its exchange products, reporting a net income of $7.3 million in 2014.

Talks between Allina Health negotiators and the Minnesota Nurses Association team broke off on September 3rd when the hospital team left the table, according to a statement by the nurses union.

Between 1991 and 2006, more than 617,000 hospitalizations related to three common "premise plumbing pathogens" resulted in around $9 billion in Medicare payments -- an average of $600 million a year.