Nov 23 2010
Kaiser Health News staff writer Jordan Rau, working in collaboration with
KQED and
NPR, reports: "Sutter Health's gleaming $618 million Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, scheduled to open here in February, is filled with doctor- and patient-friendly features. … Although Sutter executives say these developments will improve patient care, some analysts and patient advocates worry about the growing leverage the nonprofit hospital system has in negotiating rates paid by insurers, employers and patients. Sutter already is the priciest health system in California" (Rau, 11/21). Read the
story or the related
interview with Sutter Health's CEO Patrick Fry.
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