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Rankings and Ratings

Truven Health Analytics, a healthcare data and analytics solutions provider, has released its ninth annual list of the nation's 15 top health systems.

There are 338,620 employed physicians and surgeons in the United States, according to data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics collected in May 2016. The data includes physicians employed in a variety of organizations, not just hospitals and health…

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The Leapfrog Group has been assigning letter grades to hospitals based on their patient safety performance twice a year since spring 2012, and 63 hospitals have earned an A in every update, including the spring 2017 update released Wednesday.

Leapfrog released its spring 2017 Hospital Safety Grades Wednesday, and 10 hospitals in four states received a failing grade.

Standard & Poor's Financial Services predicts health insurers selling plans on the ACA individual market will be close, on average, to breaking even this year, if lawmakers don't significantly change the individual market.

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