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Connecticut's Insurance Department recently approved 13 rate increases "that far outstripped increases in recent years," the CT Mirror reports.

A new study from the Society of Human Resource Management looked at the effects the rising cost of healthcare had on employers and employees, BenefitsPRO reports. 

Taxpayers will bear 71 percent of California healthcare costs this year, based on a UCLA Center for Health Policy Research report, according to Healthcare DIVE.

Pew Charitable Trusts analyzed state Medicaid spending and found that even as coverage fell in 2014, state's still spent $.167 of every revenue dollar on Medicaid, the organization reports.

Kentucky's Attorney General Andy Beshear is suing Fresenius Medical Care Holdings because he believes the company put its patients at risk through the use of a blood screening product that has been shown to cause heart attacks, stroke or arrhythmia,…

Many insurance companies lost a substantial amount of capital on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, and many are offering narrower networks of providers as a result, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Despite spending more for their healthcare needs, high-need patients often experience worse quality of care, a Commonwealth Fund study found.

The latest insurer to pull out of the health insurance exchanges is Scott & White Health Plan, WacoTibune.com reports.

The Affordable Care Act can be saved, but it falls on the nation's legislation to be the saviors, FiveThirtyEight reports. 

The Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care discovered family physicians utilizing telemedicine likely operate in certain payment models.