This month’s issue of Health Affairs features a wide variety of content. We lead the issue with a pair of articles that look at insurer-provider negotiations: one regarding “brinkmanship” in hospital ...

Although hospitals and insurers have traditionally operated as separate organizations, an increasing number of health systems have begun offering vertically integrated insurance plans, known as ...

Last year, researchers looked at the directories of the nation’s five largest health plans and found that four out of five entries were inaccurate. This is more than a minor inconvenience. It’s a ...

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