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As hospital companies struggle to make money providing medical care, they are turning to the profitable and growing business of collecting debt.

As insurers wait to see the vote outcome on the Republican tax bill, and its provision for the repeal of the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, theyre already trying to calculate the rate at which theyll have to raise premiums to keep themselves solvent

For months now, pharmacy and health benefits companies have fretted that theyre the next targets of Jeff Bezoss disruption steamroller, but Amazon hasnt yet figured out how to shake up a notoriously complex business.

Doctors blame holdups in getting the treatment paid for by Medicare and Medicaid, the two giant U.S. government health programs, as well as some of the U.S.s largest insurers.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.s new CEO announced plans to slash 25 percent of the Israeli companys 56,000-strong workforce, suspend dividends and forgo employee bonuses

Employers believe that the CVS-Aetna merger and other potential M&A deals in the industry are going to impact how people access health care - and how employers design their future health care strategies.