Hospitals and insurers tangle over rising health care costs

Linda Rider

Leaders of the state’s major hospital devices and insurers jousted Wednesday about how to control the growing costs of wellness treatment at a time when historic staffing shortages are threatening people’s entry to treatment. Dr. Anne Klibanski, the chief government of Mass Typical Brigham, told the Massachusetts Well being Coverage […]

COVID-19 funds may mask rural hospitals’ true outlook

Linda Rider

By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Between the start of the pandemic and February 2021, rural hospitals nationwide received nearly $15 billion in federal relief dollars, according to researchers at UNC’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.  But while the money helped slow the pace of rural hospital closures and enabled […]

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