More health plan consolidation, higher health care costs, and persistent hospital difficulties signal increasing concern about the future of the Syracuse health market, according to a new report from the Community Tracking Study.

Rapidly rising health insurance premiums and a worsening medical malpractice insurance climate threaten to decrease health insurance coverage and access to health care in Miami.

Examines how health plans have changed approaches for managing costs and utilization in the wake of the recent backlash against managed care. Notes that they have begun to scale back or abandon tools such as selective contracting and risk contracting in most communities. They have also shifted...

More health plan consolidation, higher health care costs, and persistent hospital difficulties signal increasing concern about the future of the Syracuse health market, according to a new report from the Community Tracking Study.

This HSC publication notes that insured consumers may face sticker shock at pharmacy counters as health plans take more aggressive steps, such as three-tier pharmacy benefits, to control rapidly rising drug costs. Under a three-tier design, consumers typically incur the lowest out-of-pocket...