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Only about a third of plans available are silver, another third are bronze offering 60 percent coverage, 25 percent are gold or platinum plans offering 90 percent.
Cost savings are further bolstered by avoiding unnecessary surgeries and achieving lower rates of expensive complications.
Anthem and Cigna spent a combined $3.4 million, double the $1.2 million spent by Aetna and Humana.
If quality of a hospital or system is made public and easier to understand, organizations have a market incentive to improve, says Leapfrog CEO.
HCA will sell its Oklahoma hospitals and terminate its lease of a children's hospital as other systems announced plans for an integrated network.
Affiliation will allow patients to get treatment closer to home, builds upon ongoing relationship between the two systems.
2015 survey found 15 percent of pediatric residents at Stanford had experienced, witnessed mistreatment of medical residents by patients or families.
Voter majorities support ensuring affordability for high-cost drugs for chronic conditions, health plans have enough doctors, hospitals in network.
Clinton's tone was often more conciliatory before her presidential campaign when she addressed medical companies and trade groups.
Under model, rates paid to a given provider are set so that all third parties pay the same price for services to particular provider.