1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (666+ words) Governor Maura Healey’s effort to crack down on medical debt reporting has drawn resistance from debt collectors and some health care providers who say the regulatory scheme could compromise the accuracy of credit reports and create financial struggles for smaller…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1192+ words) Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm that pulled $800 million out of the doomed Steward Health Care system, reached a financial settlement Thursday with the contractors, suppliers, and other creditors who went unpaid as the hospital chain collapsed. However, while…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (610+ words) Nearly 700,000 Bay Staters will still see double-digit premium increases next year, even after state insurance regulators managed to trim down rates across seven carriers and rejected the sharpest proposed spike of almost 26 percent. The Division of Insurance posted finalized rates…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (279+ words) Twenty-five years after the Sisters of Providence founded a Catholic hospital in Holyoke in 1873, the hospital, which would become Mercy Medical Center, moved to a building on Carew Street in Springfield. Since then, the hospital has become an integral part…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (203+ words) The Boston Globe Your reporting on Baystate Health’s planned acquisition of Mercy Medical Center should give policy makers pause, not reassurance (“Springfield hospitals to merge ownership,” Business, April 29). This deal would consolidate two of Springfield’s primary hospitals under a single…...