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Healthcare

Healthcare

Lost in the hoopla over the biggest shake-up in Boston health care in decades is just how difficult it will be for Dana-Farber and Beth Israel to actually open a new cancer hospital by 2028.

A visit to a hospital in Europe is an eye-opener to the many ways monopolized U.S. hospitals pad their profits with unnecessary costs.

BOSTON — Today the Baker-Polito Administration recognized Stuart Altman, Ph.D. for his decade of service as the inaugural chair of the Massachusetts Health

State officials green-lit a new 482-bed tower at Mass General Hospital and a 78-bed addition to Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital.

Massachusetts' 11-member Health Policy Commission unanimously concluded that the expansions would drive up spending for commercially insured residents by as much as $90 million a year and boost health insurance premiums.

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission has unanimously voted to hold Mass General Brigham accountable for its spending and is requiring the health system to develop and implement a performance improvement plan that will result in cost-saving reforms. The proposed performance improvement plan must contain specific cost-reducing action steps, savings goals, process and

A boisterous political battle over a proposed expansion by the largest and most expensive hospital system in Massachusetts is spotlighting questions about whether similar expansions by big health systems around the country drive up health care costs.