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As health care consolidation accelerates nationwide, a new study shows that hospital prices in two of California's largest health systems were 25 percent higher than at other hospitals around the state.

John Rex, formerly executive vice president and chief financial officer of Optum, has been appointed CFO of UnitedHealth Group, effective immediately, the insurer has announced.

Doctors responding to the survey are worried they will not have the technology, capital or staffing to survive.

At the request of the Orlando Health CEO David Strong, the White House has waived HIPAA privacy regulations so that families can get information on the victims of the nation's deadliest shooting Sunday at the Pulse night club.

The joint enterprise has been successful beyond anyone's expectations, according to Russ Mohawk, president and CEO of Health Plans and Population Health Services for the Inova Health System.

Walgreens on Sunday formally cut ties with blood-testing startup Theranos and will immediately close all 40 Theranos Wellness Centers at its stores in Arizona.

Disruptive innovation and the consumer experience are two themes that are emerging for this year's America's Health Insurance Plans Institute & Expo opening Wednesday in Las Vegas.

CMS is awarding $10 million over the next three years to organizations that will help clinicians transition to the new quality payment system outlined under MACRA.

Fewer than one-quarter of hospitals in the United States are on track to hit the Obama administration's 2018 goal of providing at least half of their patient care through value-based arrangements -- structures that tie reimbursement from Medicare to the quality of care patients receive.

Twenty percent of reporting hospitals lack a policy that conforms to all of the criteria in the Leapfrog group's standard for preventable hospital errors dubbed "never events" the nonprofit agency has found in a newly released report.