The CMS Innovation Center wants to continue its bundled payment experiment for hip and knee replacements, but it wants to change the definition of an episode and how it sets prices.

ACOs have until Feb. 25 to decide if they want to participate in direct-contracting models, but there are few details available about the programs.

Nearly three-quarters of self-insured employers surveyed favored hospital rate regulation.

The largest publicly traded health insurers grew profits by a combined 66% in 2019, driven by the massive mergers and acquisitions several of them completed the year before.