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Transparency can help keep health care prices in check as hospital mergers raise cost concerns, according to a panel of experts hosted by the N.H. Insurance Department.
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Experts say the industry's increasing consolidation could affect health care access and affordability.
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The hospital says the move to join HCA Healthcare would ensure its financial viability, while allowing it to keep its Catholic identity.
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Doctors expect the respiratory viruses to pick up again this fall and winter, as is typical in the colder months
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Earlier this year, a federal judge gave the state of New Hampshire a year to cease holding psychiatric patients in hospital emergency rooms, a practice known as “ER boarding.”
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The plan was announced days after a court order requiring the state to do so in the next year.
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The end of the public health emergency also triggered some changes for COVID-19 health insurance coverage.
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The competing proposals come in response to a federal judge’s ruling that New Hampshire must stop holding patients in mental health crises in ERs for prolonged periods.
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New Hampshire Hospital Association released the report on Athem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
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State officials want to spur development of a new mental-health hospital and additional beds at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.