North Carolina Health News
10 key questions about the proposed WakeMed-Atrium deal
By Michelle Crouch
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research
Markets and Competition News
By Alex Olgin
By Ike Swetlitz
By Tom Knowles
by Tara Bannow
By Tara Bannow
By Dave Muoio
The Washington Post
How hospital monopolies are driving up the cost of your health care
By Peter Whoriskey
By Simon J. Levien
The New York Times
Lawmakers Target the Power of Health Insurance Giants
by Reed Abelson and Rebecca Robbins
The News & Observer
Opponents urge Wake commissioners to block WakeMed merger with Atrium Health
By Richard Stradling
by Regan Butler
by Flynn Snyder
Brown Alumni Magazine
The Primary Care Crisis: Why many Americans can’t find a doctor and what to do about it.
By Kate Rope
By Phil Galewitz and Samantha Liss
By Corrie Pikul
By Katie Palmer
Wall Street Journal
New State Laws to Bar Private Equity From Medicine Start to Show Their Teeth
by Chris Cumming
Washington Post Intelligence
What to watch as hospital CEOs face the Hill
By Megan R. Wilson
By Maia Anderson
By Tara Bannow
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn
Part of the Axios Vitals Newsletter Maya Goldman, Tina Reed, and Peter Sullivan
by Cheryl Clark
Spotlight Delaware
As Delaware debates primary care reform, a similar Oregon law offers insight
by Nick Stonesifer
By Caitlin Owens
Read the quoted study: Arnold DR, Reddy M, Cantor J, et al. Private Equity in Autism Services. JAMA Pediatr. 2026;180(3):341-343. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.5443
The Minnesota Star Tribune
Will the Allina-Sutter Health deal drive up the cost of health care in Minnesota?
By Christopher Snowbeck
By Maya Goldman
By Sarah Mueller
By Angelica Serrano-Roman
But are price controls the answer?
By Rowan Moore Gerety
NC Health News
A new perk for state workers: free surgery
by Michelle Crouch and Charlotte Ledger
By Cindy Krischer Goodman
Washington Post Intelligence
After PBMs, lawmakers start to scrutinize wholesale drug distributors
Analysis by Rebecca Adams
U.S. Right to Know
When profit kills: How private equity is eroding health care
by Pamela Ferdinand
The New York Times
‘Like a Timeshare’: Doctors Get Creative as Rents Climb
By Jane Margolies
A new study from researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health highlights a push from private equity investors into autism therapy centers across the nation.
By HealthDay
by Shaanth Nanguneri
The Oregonian/OregonLive
Oregon’s first-in-nation hospital price cap hasn’t hurt care, finances so far, study finds
By Kristine de Leon
An Arm and a Leg
Some more things that didn’t suck in 2025
"New state laws tackle the burden of medical debt and the corporate take-over of medicine."
The Economist
How to lower America’s soaring health-care costs
Meaningful opportunities to reduce U.S. health-care costs already exist but are often overshadowed by the focus on more politically prominent proposals.
The article explains how growing consolidation among insurers, hospitals, and physician groups is driving higher prices and fewer choices for patients, while current antitrust tools struggle to keep up with these increasingly complex mergers.
Researchers said the results suggest UnitedHealth may be sidestepping government rules meant to keep a lid on exorbitant payer profits.
Researchers found UnitedHealthcare paid 17% more to Optum than to other providers.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
Fairview-UnitedHealthcare rift deepens, highlighting broader stress over costs
By Christopher Snowbeck
The Providence Journal
A colonoscopy costs nearly eight times more at one RI hospital than another. Why?
This article quotes Brown University researchers Chris Whaley and Roslyn Murray from the CAHPR, who explain that wide hospital price differences across Rhode Island stem less from care quality and more from market consolidation. Whaley noted that “there’s really not a strong relationship between price and quality,” while Murray pointed to “empire-building tactics” and consolidation that give large health systems leverage to raise prices and obscure transparency