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Overall spending grew across the major categories of total healthcare expenditures, including public coverage, commercial coverage and the net cost of private health insurance.
The new entity, which officials said will be able to expand services, will get a new name.
Under a 10-year partnership, UnitedHealth Group Inc. and the UC system form an ACO that will be offered to large, self-funded employers statewide.
Only 25 percent of hospitals funded teams in 2013 that included a physician, advanced practice or RN, social worker, chaplain, analysis shows.
Lourdes Health in Pasco, Washington, and St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, Idaho, will change hands.
Earlier this month, CHS said it had found five buyers for 12 hospitals it had planned to sell, with proceeds from all 12 expected to raise upwards of $850 million for the struggling company.
In fact, charges in the third quarter of 2015 were actually higher than charges in previous quarters.
In fact, the sweeping Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, known as MACRA, was known to only 20 percent of physicians surveyed.
Clinician hiring tied to population health programs also threatens to drive up expenses, the credit rating agency says.
MedPAC's analysis found that one-star hospitals saw an average of 78 percent of admissions through emergency departments while five-star hospitals were closer to 36 percent.