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The California Assembly has passed AB 52, a bill that would give the California Insurance Commissioner the power to reject or change health insurance rate increases that are deemed excessive.
The Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Project has launched a Task Force on Delivery System Reform and Health IT. The Task Force, co-chaired by former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, now co-leaders of the Health Project, includes 24 health system experts and leaders.
Hundreds of disgruntled registered nurses from 31 states, including more than 150 from Massachusetts, plan to rally in Washington D.C. next week, according to the Massachusetts Nurses Association.
St. Peter's Health Partners is the new name of an upstate New York health system to be created when the merger of Northeast Health, St. Peter's Health Care Services and Seton Health is completed later this summer.
Kaiser Permanente has selected three finalists in its Small Hospital, Big Idea hospital design competition. They are Aditazz; Gresham, Smith and Partners; and Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch.
An adversarial relationship between providers and payers is counterproductive to the purpose of healthcare - with patients being caught in the middle.
Healthcare organizations dealing with information overload in the shift to value-based healthcare might be interested in checking out Vieosoft.
– A new partnership will seek to market Internet-based personal health records to health insurers for their customers.
Medco Health Solutions is teaming up with Verizon to help patients access their prescription drug history from any location and identify alternatives to costly prescription drugs.
The Huron Consulting Group is offering a new software solution that aims to help healthcare providers steer a straight path through the revenue cycle management maze.