This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

May 09, 2024 - Federal agencies are turning up the volume on their warnings to private equity (PE) investors to stop putting profit motives before patient health. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ...

Private-equity firms’ rapid pace of health care acquisitions have prompted discussions about their influence on the US health care system. Policy makers, especially at the state level, are exploring ...

Lawmakers on Beacon Hill heard testimony Monday around how health care has become increasingly attractive to for-profit companies. Experts warned that without stronger regulation, this could ...

The rising demand for primary health care (PHC) due to ageing populations, insufficient public sector service outreach and ...

Woolhandler and Himmelstein are professors at the City University of New York’s Hunter College and lecturers in medicine at Harvard Medical School; Schrier and Schwartz are medical residents at the ...

For many years, Conemaugh Health System, a hospital chain in west central Pennsylvania, was a nonprofit entity, serving patients in the small communities of Johnstown, Hastings, Meyersdale and Roaring ...

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Since implementing the Health Home program, New York has witnessed marked performance improvements for numerous HEDIS processes-of-care measures for Health Home enrollees and at least a 25% reduction ...