Health plan CEOs: Prescription drugs pose major cost concerns

http://www.fiercehealthpayer.com/story/health-plan-ceos-prescription-drugs-pose-major-cost-concerns/2015-10-19

Drugs and Dollars

Pat Richards of SelectHealth and John Bennett of Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan discuss trends, solutions

Morristown hospital tax settlement figures to be first of many in the state

http://www.njbiz.com/article/20151111/NJBIZ01/151119929/morristown-hospital-tax-settlement-figures-to-be-first-of-many-in-the-state

Morristown Medical Center is the key to a property tax dispute between the municipality and Atlantic Health System.

Atlantic Health will make the initial payment of $10 million, then pay another $5.5 million in penalties and interest in annual payments through the year 2025 to settle the years in dispute, 2006 to 2015. The system also will begin making annual tax payments on 24 percent of the property, which was agreed to be valued at $40 million, through 2025. That will mean additional payments of $1.05 million a year for 10 years — making the total eventual tax payment more than $25 million.

Number of U.S. Retail Health Clinics Will Surpass 2,800 by 2017, Accenture Forecasts

https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/number-of-us-retail-health-clinics-will-surpass-2800-by-2017-accenture-forecasts.htm

“As more retail clinics shift from cost centers to profit centers, they will be better able to deliver stand-alone profits with greater certainty, so the implications for retailers and healthcare value chain players will be significant,” Ficery said.

When Something Goes Wrong At The Hospital, Who Pays?

http://khn.org/news/when-something-goes-wrong-at-the-hospital-who-pays/

hospital bandage money 570

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Why This California Hospital is a Model for Price and Quality Transparency

http://fortune.com/2015/11/11/hoag-orthopedic-institute-price-transparency/

Kaiser sees revenue increase but ends Q3 with $115M net loss

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/kaiser-sees-revenue-increase-but-ends-q3-with-115m-net-loss.html

Kaiser Permanente