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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare Blog: How the N.Y. insurance market foreshadows problems with the GOP's reform plans Thursday, April 14, 2016 7:58 PM Out-of-state medical malpractice insurers not regulated by New York State are grabbing market share by charging lower premiums and cherrypicking customers. The same could happen under GOP presidential candidates' ideas to allow interstate sales of... Justice Department alleges two West Virginia hospitals illegally divvied up territories Thursday, April 14, 2016 6:21 PM St. Mary's Medical Center in Huntington, W.Va., and Charleston (W.Va.) Area Medical Center have agreed to settle an antitrust lawsuit accusing them of illegally coordinating marketing campaigns for various services in the markets where they compete. Epic stands to lose part of $642 million VA patient scheduling system contract Thursday, April 14, 2016 5:00 PM Epic Systems Corp. may lose its part of a $642 million contract to provide its commercial computerized patient-scheduling system to the Veterans Health Administration if home-grown software that's 99% cheaper works. Florida governor signs law shielding patients from surprise medical bills Thursday, April 14, 2016 4:59 PM The movement to protect consumers from surprise medical bills won a major victory Thursday when Republican Gov. Rick Scott of Florida signed a bipartisan bill that will exempt patients from having to pay balance bills from out-of-network providers... HCA ends long-running tax dispute with Florida Thursday, April 14, 2016 3:00 PM Records show HCA Holdings, the parent company of the Nashville-based HCA, signed an agreement with Florida officials in late March to drop three lawsuits. Report confirms gradual growth in hospital-owned health plans Thursday, April 14, 2016 2:01 PM Although reasons vary from market to market, it's clear hospitals view owning a health plan as a way to build their population health programs by combining medical claims and clinical data. Bristol-Myers Squibb donates hep C drugs to developing countries Thursday, April 14, 2016 1:56 PM The New York-based pharma giant announced Thursday that it will immediately begin providing enough Daklinza to treat 10,000 patients over the next two years. Bristol-Myers will provide drugs for patients in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Rwanda and... Athenahealth taps its accelerator program to buy scheduling software firm Thursday, April 14, 2016 12:31 PM Athenahealth, the technology company that offers electronic health records and other practice-management software, has bought scheduling company Arsenal Health from its own accelerator program. FTC expert warns of $45 million cost increase at Advocate-NorthShore hearing Thursday, April 14, 2016 11:45 AM Consumers along Chicago's North Shore would end up paying about $45 million more a year for healthcare if two of the biggest Chicago-area hospital networks merged, an expert for federal antitrust regulators testified Wednesday.

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