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Despite the industry emphasizing the need to tie payments to value, fee-for-service is still the name of the game, according to a Merritt Hawkins survey, Medscape reports.

The California Senate passed the universal healthcare plan in a 23 to 14 vote, according to The Mercury News.

Tampa, Fla.-based Freedom Health agreed to pay $31.6 million to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act, Insurance News Net reports.

UPMC Health Plan recently established its Center for Value-Based Purchasing for Pharmaceuticals.

Value-based care is the future of the healthcare industry, according to Law360.

St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital and UnitedHealthcare failed to agree on a contract negotiating rates for patient care, the Tampa Bay Times reports.

A survey said Americans didn't change their views of Humana and Aetna after the payers announced their intentions to withdraw from the ACA's healthcare exchanges in 2018, Morning Consult reports.

Medical billers in the Northeast U.S. with two decades of experience rake in the highest average salary of $48,090, according to Physicians Practice 2017 Staff Survey.

The Florida Society of Ambulatory Surgical Centers and two Hospital Corporation of America affiliates — Brooksville, Fla.-based Oak Hill Hospital and Parallon Business Performance Group — filed challenges against the state Division of Workers' Compensation's recent proposal, according to News…

Senate Budget Chairman Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., told Politico he and fellow senators are starting to compose an ACA repeal bill.