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        "uri": "/2024/04/22/medical-providers-still-grappling-with-unitedhealth-cyberattack-more-devastating-than-covid/",
        "title": "Medical providers still struggling to get paid since Change Healthcare cyberattack",
        "byline": "Samantha Liss",
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        "prettyDate": "April 22, 2024",
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        "summary": "The tech firm has been a critical conduit for shuttling information between most of the nation's insurance companies and providers, but since the hack, some insurers must send forms in the mail, delaying payment substantially.",
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        "uri": "/2023/10/02/these-appalachia-hospitals-made-big-promises-to-gain-a-monopoly-theyre-failing-to-deliver/",
        "title": "Hospital mergers run amok? When states disregard warnings from the FTC",
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        "prettyDate": "October 02, 2023",
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        "summary": "Many states have passed laws that allow hospital systems to merge into monopolies, making them difficult to control and causing a decrease in care – and public records suggest that's exactly what happened at Ballad Health.",
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        "uri": "/2023/09/29/who-polices-hospitals-merging-across-markets-states-give-different-answers/",
        "title": "Hospital mergers: Bigger is not necessarily better (particularly in cross-market deals)",
        "byline": "Samantha Liss",
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        "summary": "Without federal intervention, states that have seen megamergers, such as Michigan and California, are often left to wrestle with the complex question of how to respond, given the likelihood of higher prices for their residents.",
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        "uri": "/2023/07/13/patients-squeezed-in-fight-over-who-gets-to-bill-for-pricey-infusion-drugs/",
        "title": "Infusion drugs: Who gets to buy and bill for these pricey meds?",
        "byline": "Samantha Liss",
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        "prettyDate": "July 13, 2023",
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        "summary": "Health insurers and medical providers are battling over who should supply high-cost infusion drugs for patients, while some insurers are bypassing hospital pharmacies and physician offices and instead sending more complex drugs through third-party pharmacies.",
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