| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | Health insurance startup Oscar slashes commissions | | | Oscar became the most recent health insurer to slash the commissions it pays to brokers. The Manhattan startup last month sent a letter notifying brokers that rates would be more than halved starting in February. |
| Dignity Health halts all investments in coal companies | | | Dignity Health has sold off investments in thermal coal companies and will no longer invest in the coal industry. It's one of the boldest moves to date by a U.S. health system to align clinical and financial interests with the need to solve climate... |
| Slim margin of error for Republican ACA repeal efforts | | Wednesday, December 02, 2015 4:15 PM | |
| | The Senate took up a bill Wednesday to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act and was expected to continue debating the legislation into Thursday night. The White House, meanwhile, formally signaled a veto. |
| Health spending growth rate surges to 5.3% under ACA | | Wednesday, December 02, 2015 4:00 PM | |
| | The Affordable Care Act expanded health coverage to millions of Americans in 2014. Because more people had insurance to pay for healthcare services, demand and spending predictably went up more quickly. |
| U.S. HealthWorks gets new CEO | | Wednesday, December 02, 2015 11:28 AM | |
| | Joseph Mallas has been named president and CEO of U.S. HealthWorks, an occupational health and urgent-care subsidiary of San Francisco-based Dignity Health. |
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