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Perhaps complicating the picture is the cost of implementing a quality improvement program, the authors said.

Poll says 49 percent of respondents said they have a favorable view of ACA, while 31 percent said they favored the GOP's American Health Care Act.

Vermont, which regulates the hospital and insurance markets and is going to an all-payer model, is an exception at requests of 6.7 and 12.7 percent.

Barriers to conversations on cost transparency included patients' fear of being "profiled" based on their socioeconomic status or ability to pay.

The five Pennsylvania hospitals being sold to the Reading Health System are part of a planned 30-hospital divestiture.

Without an individual mandate, young adults were more likely to lose health insurance.

The Justice Department has also accused giant insurer UnitedHealth Group of overcharging the federal government by more than $1 billion by improperly jacking up risk scores over the course of a decade.

Improving the percentage has the potential to lower costs for patients and the overall healthcare system.

MACRA initiative to use random identifying numbers is being done to combat fraud and identity theft.

Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting speaking proposals for the Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum to be held in Boston, October 23-24.