Nation’s largest insurer cites effort to strike an affordable contract, but the health system insists it won’t be in-network next year with UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plans.
Bloomington’s HealthPartners and Duluth-based Essentia want to join forces to create what would be one of Minnesota’s largest health systems. It’s the third proposed merger of major providers in the state this year.
The Eden Prairie-based health care giant called the report “flawed” and defended risk calculation practices that have stoked controversy across the industry.
The Minnesota medical device company will distribute technology from Hong Kong-based manufacturer, complementing its own Hugo robotic-assisted surgery system.
The attorney general’s blessing is seen as the last regulatory hurdle to a deal in which the South Dakota-based system agrees to maintain Robbinsdale hospital for at least a decade.
Efforts to address the budget crisis at HCMC stalled for years amid distrust and blame among decisionmakers at Minnesota’s largest safety-net hospital, according to previously private recordings of meetings.
Recently unsealed recordings show how a private hospital board meeting in December 2023 epitomized the frustrations over money and power-sharing at Hennepin Healthcare.
