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The deal would add two new affiliated hospitals to Northwestern, one of the largest systems in the region.

Leaders like Banner Health, Montefiore explain what it took to succeed in the first ACO model, and look towards new programs that give them shared risk incentives for care quality.

Trend has driven up stock prices of the largest publicly traded travel-nurses companies.

The move could affect 3,500 UPMC employees who are at least 60 years old and have 10 years on the job.

Operating income across Pennsylvania's 35 for-profit and 135 nonprofit hospitals decreased about 5 percent in fiscal 2014 from $1.8 billion to $1.7 billion, according to new data released by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.

The change will affect 10,000 workers, an estimated 7 percent of the 150,000 in the system's workforce, according to Ascension, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health network.

Knowing when it's time to bring in outside help to improve the business is one thing, but with so many consultants to choose from, make sure you know what your organization wants.

While it's clear that second opinions can help individual patients make better medical decisions, there's little hard data showing that second opinions lead to better health results overall.

The further reimbursement cuts are expected push margins of an estimated 40 percent of all home health providers into loss territory.

The deal comes five years after Humana spent $790 million to buy Concentra, a network of 300 urgent care and physical centers and 245 work-site clinics in 38 states.