Top 5 stories of the past 5 days: Costly states | Concierge medicine | Change Healthcare

Going by the price of being a patient, North Carolina and Hawaii bookend the other 48 states.

Critics say the model caters to the wealthy while taking primary care physicians out of circulation for everyone else. Not so, respond concierge proponents.

‘I have all kinds of nightmare scenarios playing out in my head, like how am I going to pay my bills?’

The first phase of Kaiser Permanente’s rollout of Risant Health has been completed, as the new nonprofit organization has officially closed its blockbuster acquisition of Geisinger Health.

Previously disclosed terms valued the transactions at a combined $1.5 billion.