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Premiums will rise 42% for young adults under reform

Insurers likely will raise premiums for young adults to compensate for the reform law's age rating provision, which limits the amount insurers can charge older members to only three times that of younger members.

Blue Shield ACO keeps premiums low, could be model for others

Blue Shield of California and the hospitals and physicians it partners with say their arrangement, which has successfully kept premiums flat, could be an example for federal officials and other

Premiums jump as much as 500 percent for some hospital workers

To ring in the New Year, about 2,000 part-time workers at Boston-based Brigham & Women's Hospital will see triple-digit insurance premium hikes, reports WBUR's CommonHealth. Health insurance

When rationality exits the room

If you believe "Bizarro World" is limited to comic books, guess again. It's beginning to bump and nudge its way into the usually rational world of healthcare finance. For the unversed, Bizarro World

Mass. governor wants veto power over most medical rates

An expected mixed reaction of hope, worry and cautious optimism greeted Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's proposal to give the state insurance commissioner broad powers to reject healthcare rate

Tough challenges on the horizon

I hate to be a downer, but from where I sit, next year's shaping up to be pretty scary for providers. For one thing, several leading health plans have vowed to raise premiums in 2009. As we've

ALSO NOTED: Moody's questions non-profit hospitals' future; CA med office space at a premium; and much more...

> Moody's Investors Service isn't too excited about the financial prospects of not-for-profit hospitals over the next few years.